Characterization of conserved tandem donor sites and intronic motifs required for alternative splicing in corticosteroid receptor genes

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4958-4967

  Rivers, Caroline ^a   Flynn, Andrea ^a   Qian, Xiaoxiao ^a   Matthews, Laura ^b   Lightman, Stafford ^a   Ray, David ^b   Norman, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PYRIMIDINE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLATYPUS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; RNA BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLICEOSOME; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MAMMALS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70350327777     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0346     Document Type: Article

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