A novel human-specific splice isoform alters the critical C-terminus of Survival Motor Neuron protein

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Seo, Joonbae ^a   Singh, Natalia N ^a   Ottesen, Eric W ^a   Lee, Brian M ^a,b   Singh, Ravindra N ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEMIN2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP C; HNRNPC PROTEIN, HUMAN; ISOPROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SMN2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 2;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; EXON; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP C; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 2 PROTEIN;

EID: 84982730470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30778     Document Type: Article

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