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Post-transcriptional regulation of rat carnitine octanoyltransferase.
Biochemical Society transactions - 1 May 2001
Hegardt F G, Bach M, Asins G, Caudevilla C, Morillas M, Codony C, Serra D
Abstract excerpt
Carnitine octanoyltransferase (COT) produces three different transcripts in rat through cis- and trans-splicing reactions, which can lead to the synthesis of two proteins. The occurrence of the three COT transcripts in rat has been found in all tissues examined and does not depend on sex, fat feeding, peroxisome proliferators or hyperinsulinaemia. Rat COT exon 2 contains a putative exonic splicing enhancer (ESE)...
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