Highly specific alternative splicing of transcripts encoding BK channels in the chicken's cochlea is a minor determinant of the tonotopic gradient

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3646-3660

  Miranda Rottmann, Soledad ^a   Kozlov, Andrei S ^a   Hudspeth, A J ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHICKEN; COCHLEA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; COCHLEA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EXONS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ALPHA SUBUNITS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77954377339     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00073-10     Document Type: Article

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