A new methodology for quantification of alternatively spliced exons reveals a highly tissue-specific expression pattern of WNK1 isoforms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Vidal Petiot, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Cheval, Lydie ^b,c   Faugeroux, Julie ^a,b   Malard, Thierry ^d   Doucet, Alain ^b,c   Jeunemaitre, Xavier ^a,b,e   Hadchouel, Juliette ^a,b  

^a PARIS CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Laboratoire des Composites Thermostructuraux   (France)

^e HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE WNK1; PRKWNK1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED EXON; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; LIVER; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; METABOLISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; EXONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84861711157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037751     Document Type: Article

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