Mammalian glutaminase Gls2 gene encodes two functional alternative transcripts by a surrogate promoter usage mechanism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Martín Rufián, Mercedes ^a   Tosina, Marta ^a   Campos Sandoval, José A ^a   Manzanares, Elisa ^a   Lobo, Carolina ^a   Segura, J A ^a   Alonso, Francisco J ^a   Matés, José M ^a   Márquez, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN TISSUE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLS2 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84872749264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038380     Document Type: Article

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