Unusual regulation of splicing of the cholinergic locus in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 729-737

  Mathews, Eleanor A ^a,c   Mullen, Gregory P ^a,d   Manjarrez, Jacob R ^a,e   Rand, James B ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

ChAT; Choline acetyltransferase; Cholinergic gene locus; VAChT; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; UNC-17 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON SKIPPING; GENE LOCUS; GLOBODERA PALLIDA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MELOIDOGYNE HAPLA; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NESTED GENES; RNA SPLICING; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84924955663     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.173765     Document Type: Article

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