Leydig cells express the myelin proteolipid protein gene and incorporate a new alternatively spliced exon

Gene

Volumn 436, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 30-36

  Li, Shenyang ^a   Greuel, Brian T ^b   Meng, Fanxue ^a   Pereira, Glauber B ^a   Pitts, Adria ^b   Dobretsova, Anna ^a   Wight, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Gene expression; Leydig cells; Myelin proteolipid protein; Testis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MYELIN; PROTEIN PLP1; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FUSION GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; INTRONS; LAC OPERON; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MYELIN PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

MUS;

EID: 62549133493     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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