Natural base-pairing interactions between 5′ splice site and branch site sequences affect mammalian 5′ splice site selection

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1248-1261

  Côté, Jocelyn ^a   Chabot, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; NCAM; RNA structure; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL STRAIN 3T3; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

3T3 CELLS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0030724291     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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