A NOVEL PITUITARY TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IS PRODUCED BY ALTERNATIVE SPLICING OF THE HUMAN GHF-1 PIT-1 GENE/

Authors
DELHASE M VILA V HOOGHEPETERS EL CASTRILLO JL
Citation
M. Delhase et al., A NOVEL PITUITARY TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IS PRODUCED BY ALTERNATIVE SPLICING OF THE HUMAN GHF-1 PIT-1 GENE/, Gene, 155(2), 1995, pp. 273-275
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Genetics & Heredity
Journal title
Gene → ACNP
ISSN journal
03781119
Volume
155
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
273 - 275
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-1119(1995)155:2<273:ANPTFI>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
An alternative splice acceptor site in intron 1 of the human GHF-1/PIT -1 gene was sequenced. The use of this splice site is responsible for a 78-bp in-frame insertion upstream from exon 2 and leads to the hGHF- 2/PIT-2 cDNA detected in normal human pituitary.