Nonrandom gene organization: Structural arrangements of specific pre-mRNA transcription and splicing with SC-35 domains

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 131, Issue 6 II, 1995, Pages 1635-1647

  Xing, Yigong ^a   Johnson, Carol V ^a   Moen Jr , Phillip T ^a   McNeil, John A ^a   Lawrence, Jeanne Bentley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ACTINS; ALBUMINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; HEART; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUNG; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NEUROTENSIN; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029615378     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.131.6.1635     Document Type: Article

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