Assembly of specific SR protein complexes on distinct regulatory elements of the Drosophila doublesex splicing enhancer

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2089-2101

  Lynch, Kristen W ^a   Maniatis, Tom ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; doublesex; sex determination; site specific crosslinking; SR proteins; transformer proteins

Indexed keywords

PURINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029858338     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.16.2089     Document Type: Article

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