Purine-rich enhancers function in the AT-AC pre-mRNA splicing pathway and do so independently of intact U1 snRNP

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1664-1673

  Wu, Qiang ^b   Krainer, Adrian R ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AT AC intron; Exon definition; Exonic splicing enhancer (ESE); Pre mRNA splicing; U1 snRNP

Indexed keywords

PURINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CROSS LINKING; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SILENCER GENE; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; PURINES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031730213     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298981432     Document Type: Article

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