U1 small nuclear RNA-promoted exon selection requires a minimal distance between the position of U1 binding and the 3' splice site across the exon

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 7099-7107

  Hwang, Dong Youn ^a   Cohen, Justus B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

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EID: 0030691930     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.12.7099     Document Type: Article

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