Exonic splicing enhancers contribute to the use of both 3' and 5' splice site usage of rat β-tropomyosin pre-mRNA

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 378-394

  Selvakumar, Meenakshi ^a,b   Helfman, David M ^a  

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

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E complex; Exon definition; Purine rich motifs; SF2 ASF

Indexed keywords

BETA TROPOMYOSIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYURIDINE; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; TROPOMYOSIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0033018827     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299981050     Document Type: Article

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