Identification of functional exonic splicing enhancer motifs recognized by individual SR proteins

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1998-2012

  Liu, Hong Xiang ^a   Zhang, Michael ^a   Krainer, Adrian R ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Exonic splicing enhancers; RNA sequence motifs; SELEX; SF2 ASF; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0032128255     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.13.1998     Document Type: Article

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