Cross-validated methods for promoter/transcription start site mapping in SL trans-spliced genes, established using the Ciona intestinalis troponin i gene

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2638-2648

  Khare, Parul ^a   Mortimer, Sandra I ^a   Cleto, Cynthia L ^a   Okamura, Kohji ^c   Suzuki, Yutaka ^c   Kusakabe, Takehiro ^d   Nakai, Kenta ^c   Meedel, Thomas H ^b   Hastings, Kenneth E M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TROPONIN I;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CITNI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE MAPPING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CIONA INTESTINALIS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TATA BOX; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TROPONIN I;

ASCIDIA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EUKARYOTA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 79954585786     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1151     Document Type: Article

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