A combinatorial code for splicing silencing: UAGG and GGGG motifs

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 0843-0860

  Han, Kyoungha ^a,c   Yeo, Gene ^b,d   An, Ping ^a   Burge, Christopher B ^b   Grabowski, Paula J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; EXONS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; NEURONS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 21844480060     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030158     Document Type: Article

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