RNA Folding Affects the Recruitment of SR Proteins by Mouse and Human Polypurinic Enhancer Elements in the Fibronectin EDA Exon

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1387-1400

  Buratti, Emanuele ^a   Muro, Andrés F ^a   Giombi, Maurizio ^a   Gherbassi, Daniel ^a,b   Iaconcig, Alessandra ^a   Baralle, Francisco E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1642458353     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.3.1387-1400.2004     Document Type: Article

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