Serine phosphorylation of SR proteins is required for their recruitment to sites of transcription in vivo

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 297-307

  Misteli, Tom ^a   Cáceres, Javier F ^b   Clement, Jade Q ^c   Krainer, Adrian R ^a   Wilkinson, Miles F ^c   Spector, David L ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleus; Phosphorylation; Pre mRNA splicing; Recruitment; Transcription

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CACERES;

EID: 0032547829     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.2.297     Document Type: Article

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