Transcription start sites and usage of the first exon of mouse Foxp3 gene

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9613-9619

  Fujita, Toshitsugu ^a   Fujii, Hodaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foxp3; MRNA splicing; Transcription start site; Tregs

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' RAPID AMPLIFICATION OF CDNA END; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FORKHEAD BOX P3 GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84868581095     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1825-3     Document Type: Article

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