Cloning of Caenorhabditis U2AF65: An alternatively spliced RNA containing a novel exon

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 946-953

  Zorio, Diego A R ^a   Lea, Kris ^a   Blumenthal, Thomas ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HELMINTH RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAB PROTEIN; RAB18 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; INTRON; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; STOP CODON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPERON; PLANT PROTEINS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030614546     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.2.946     Document Type: Article

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