Coordinately regulated alternative splicing of genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and uptake

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Medina, Marisa Wong ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Naidoo, Devesh ^a   Rudel, Lawrence L ^b   Temel, Ryan E ^b   McDaniel, Allison L ^b   Marshall, Stephanie M ^b   Krauss, Ronald M ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN 1; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT ANIMAL; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CHLOROCEBUS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENOTYPE; HMGCR GENE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LDLR GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM;

CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; PRIMATES;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHOLESTEROL; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, LDL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955758640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019420     Document Type: Article

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