Conserved usage of alternative 5' untranslated exons of the GATA4 gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Mazaud Guittot, Séverine ^a,b   Bouchard, Marie France ^a,b   Robert Grenon, Jean Philippe ^b   Robert, Claude ^b   Goodyer, Cynthia G ^c   Silversides, David W ^d   Viger, Robert S ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYSOME; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AGING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; FETUS; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

RATTUS;

EID: 77954071303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008454     Document Type: Article

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