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Woodchuck post-transcriptional element induces nuclear export of myotonic dystrophy 3' untranslated region transcripts.
EMBO reports - 1 May 2005
Mastroyiannopoulos Nikolaos P, Feldman Mariana L, Uney James B, Mahadevan Mani S, Phylactou Leonidas A
Abstract excerpt
The woodchuck post-transcriptional regulatory element (WPRE) can naturally accumulate hepatitis transcripts in the cytoplasm, and has been recently exploited as an enhancer of transgene expression. The retention of mutant myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) transcripts in the nucleus of myotonic dystrophy (DM) cells has an important pathogenic role in the disease, resulting in pleiotropic effects including...
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