Genome-wide analysis reveals an unexpected function for the Drosophila splicing factor U2AF50 in the nuclear export of intronless mRNAs

Molecular Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 775-786

  Blanchette, Marco ^a   Labourier, Emmanuel ^a,b   Green, Richard E ^a   Brenner, Steven E ^a   Rio, Donald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN U2AF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INSECT CELL; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA;

EID: 2942648436     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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