The SR splicing factors ASF/SF2 and SC35 have antagonistic effects on intronic enhancer-dependent splicing of the β-tropomyosin alternative axon 6A

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1772-1784

  Gallego, Maria E ^a   Gattoni, Renata ^b   Stévenin, James ^b   Marie, Joelle ^a   Expert Bezançon, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

tropomyosin; Alternative splicing; ASF; Exon selection; SC35

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPLICEOSOMES; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0030998715     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.7.1772     Document Type: Article

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