SR proteins and splicing control

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1569-1579

  Manley, James L ^a   Tacke, Roland ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE;

EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLICEOSOME;

EID: 0029767662     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.13.1569     Document Type: Review

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