Quantitative microarray profiling provides evidence against widespread coupling of alternative splicing with nonsense-mediated mRNA decay to control gene expression

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-158

  Pan, Qun ^a   Saltzman, Arneet L ^a,b   Yoon, Ki Kim ^c   Misquitta, Christine ^a   Shai, Ofer ^a   Maquat, Lynne E ^c   Frey, Brendan J ^a   Blencowe, Benjamin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Microarray analysis; Nonsense mediated mRNA decay; Premature termination codon

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA HELICASES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 30944449484     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1382806     Document Type: Article

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