Novel transcript truncating function of Rap1p revealed by synthetic codon-optimized Ty1 retrotransposon

Genetics

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 523-535

  Yarrington, Robert M ^a,b   Richardson, Sarah M ^a,c   Huang, Cheng Ran Lisa ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; REPRESSOR ACTIVATOR PROTEIN 1; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CODON OPTIMIZED RETROTRANSPOSON TY1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863142828     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.136648     Document Type: Article

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