Targeted Combinatorial Alternative Splicing Generates Brain Region-Specific Repertoires of Neurexins

Neuron

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 386-398

  Schreiner, Dietmar ^a   Nguyen, Thi Minh ^a   Russo, Giancarlo ^b   Heber, Steffen ^c   Patrignani, Andrea ^b   Ahrné, Erik ^a   Scheiffele, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NEUREXIN; NEUREXIN 1 ALPHA; NEUREXIN 1 BETA; NEUREXIN 2 ALPHA; NEUREXIN 2 BETA; NEUREXIN 3 ALPHA; NEUREXIN 3 BETA; SYNAPSE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SYNAPSE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXONS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84908240641     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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