In vivo role of alternative splicing and serine phosphorylation of the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-144

  Debbache, Julien ^a   Zaidi, M Raza ^b   Davis, Sean ^b   Guo, Theresa ^b   Bismuth, Keren ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Skuntz, Susan ^a   Maric, Dragan ^a   Pickel, James ^c   Meltzer, Paul ^b   Merlino, Glenn ^a   Arnheiter, Heinz ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; BETA TUBULIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SERINE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA CELL; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MITF GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; VERTEBRATE; WILD TYPE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; EXONS; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PIGMENTATION; SERINE;

MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860577795     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.135996     Document Type: Article

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