A new regulatory protein, KSRP, mediates exon inclusion through an intronic splicing enhancer

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1023-1036

  Min, Hosung ^a   Turck, Christoph W ^b   Nikolic, Julia M ^a   Black, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; intronic splicing enhancer; KSRP; regulatory protein; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA BINDING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030969572     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.8.1023     Document Type: Article

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