Intragenic alternative splicing coordination is essential for Caenorhabditis elegans slo-1 gene function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20790-20795

  Glauser, Dominique A ^a,b   Johnson, Brandon E ^a   Aldrich, Richard W ^c   Goodman, Miriam B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

BK potassium channels; Slo1 channels

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLO 1 GENE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; INTRONS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICE SITES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84855502011     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116712108     Document Type: Article

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