atSRp30, one of two SF2/ASF-like proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana, regulates splicing of specific plant genes

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 987-1001

  Lopato, Sergiy ^a   Kalyna, Maria ^a   Dorner, Silke ^a   Kobayashi, Ryuji ^b   Krainer, Adrian R ^b   Barta, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Overexpression; Phenotype; Plant development; Pre mRNA processing; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033561378     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.8.987     Document Type: Article

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