Computational characterization of 3′ splice variants in the GFAP isoform family

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Boyd, Sarah E ^a   Nair, Betina ^b   Ng, Sze Woei ^b   Keith, Jonathan M ^a   Orian, Jacqueline M ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN ALPHA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN DELTA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN EPSILON; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICE SITES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84859153470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033565     Document Type: Article

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