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Fig. 7. Alternative splicing pattern of fgfr2 exon 8a/b is altered by PQBP1 knockdown. (A) Alternative splicing incorporates either exon 8a or 8b into fgfr2 transcripts, which generates two isoforms of FGFR2: IIIb and IIIc, respectively (see text). Intron sizes (kb) indicated. (B,C) Sum total of qPCR measurements of fgfr2IIIb/c transcripts (B), and the relative levels of each splicing variant (C), on total RNA extracted from early gastrula (stage 10.5) morphant embryos bilaterally injected at the two-cell stage with MOs: 150 ng control (CT), 100 ng PQBP1 (PQ), 50 ng WBP11 (BP), or combined PQBP1 and WBP11 (PQ+BP) (150 ng total). Samples were prepared and analyzed as per Fig. 5 (*P<0.05 or **P<0.01; Student's t-test, n=3). (D) Semi-quantitative RT-PCR amplification products of alternative spliced exon 8a or 8b from embryos injected with morpholinos (as above). (E) Partial rescue of fgf4 expression in pqbp1 morphants (100 ng pqbp1 MO) by co-injection of 1 ng Xenopus fgfr2IIIc (*P<0.05; Student's t-test, n=3). Image published in: Iwasaki Y and Thomsen GH (2014) Copyright © 2014. Image reproduced with permission of the publisher and the copyright holder. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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