Alternative promoter usage and alternative splicing of the rat estrogen receptor α gene generate numerous mRNA variants with distinct 5′-ends

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 59-69

  Ishii, Hirotaka ^a   Kobayashi, Momoko ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative promoter usage; Alternative splicing; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA SPLICE SITES; TESTIS; TRANSFECTION; UTERUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 72449205068     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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