Alternative pre-mRNA splicing: the logic of combinatorial control

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 381-388

  Smith, Christopher W J ^a   Valcárcel, Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0034256020     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(00)01604-2     Document Type: Review

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