Functional diversity of human basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor TCF4 isoforms generated by alternative 5′ exon usage and splicing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Sepp, Mari ^a   Kannike, Kaja ^a   Eesmaa, Ave ^a   Urb, Mari ^a   Timmusk, Tõnis ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TCF4; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TCF4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; E BOX ELEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; TCF4 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHEMISTRY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ALIAS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL NUCLEUS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 79960327248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022138     Document Type: Article

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