A novel splicing regulator shares a nuclear import pathway with SR proteins

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1359-1369

  Lai, Ming Chih ^a   Kuo, Hao Wei ^a   Chang, Wen Cheng ^a,b   Tarn, Woan Yuh ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Nuclear import; RNA binding protein; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RMB4A PROTEIN; RMB4B PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN; SR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; YEAST;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; BETA KARYOPHERINS; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); CELL NUCLEUS; DIHYDROOROTASE; EXONS; GENES, INSECT; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037451327     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg126     Document Type: Article

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