BaxΔ2 Family Alternative Splicing Salvages Bax Microsatellite-Frameshift Mutations

Genes and Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 501-512

  Haferkamp, Bonnie ^a   Zhang, Honghong ^a   Kissinger, Samuel ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Lin, Yuting ^a   Schultz, Megan ^a   Xiang, Jialing ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; Bax; microsatellite instability; microsatellite mutation; tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSATELLITE FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84891517135     PISSN: 19476019     EISSN: 19476027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1947601913515906     Document Type: Article

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