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Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein is essential for early mouse development and embryonic stem cell proliferation.
The FEBS journal - 1 Nov 2009
Shibayama Masaki, Ohno Satona, Osaka Takashi, Sakamoto Reiko, Tokunaga Akinori, Nakatake Yuhki, Sato Mitsuharu, Yoshida Nobuaki
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Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) is a widely expressed RNA-binding protein with multiple roles in RNA processing, including the splicing of alternative exons, mRNA stability, mRNA localization, and internal ribosome entry site-dependent translation. Although it has been reported that increased expression of PTB is correlated with cancer cell growth, the role of PTB in mammalian development is still...
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