The Caenorhabditis elegans gene mfap-1 encodes a nuclear protein that affects alternative splicing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ma, Long ^a   Gao, Xiaoyang ^a   Luo, Jintao ^a   Huang, Liange ^a   Teng, Yanling ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROFIBRILLAR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON RETENTION; LOCOMOTION; MICROFIBRILLAR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1 GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; SFA 1 GENE; TOS 1 GENE; UAF 1 GENE; YEAST;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

EID: 84864580596     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002827     Document Type: Article

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