Expression of conjoined genes: Another mechanism for gene regulation in eukaryotes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Prakash, Tulika ^a   Sharma, Vineet K ^a   Adati, Naoki ^a   Ozawa, Ritsuko ^a   Kumar, Naveen ^a   Nishida, Yuichiro ^a   Fujikake, Takayoshi ^a   Takeda, Tadayuki ^a   Taylor, Todd D ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONJOINED GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 78149432714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013284     Document Type: Article

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