isoform
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The researchers found thousands of isoform switches that occur during brain development, implicating previously uncharacterized RNA-binding proteins in cellular identity and cellular fate decisions.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2024
This gene encodes the protein ST2 in both receptor and decoy isoform, which binds to a cytokine called IL-33 that is involved in inflammatory and immunoregulation processes.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
It turns out that this one chaperone protein had a twin — it’s called an isoform.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021
The top and middle panels show isoform sequencing and RNA-seq reads, respectively, that have been mapped to the chromosomal location containing the AUR62017258 gene model, which is shown on the bottom panel.
From Nature • Feb. 7, 2017
The short deltaN isoform is thought to function as an oncogene, and its expression was most enriched in the classical subtype.
From Nature • Sep. 26, 2012
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