Concentration dependent selection of targets by an SR splicing regulator results in tissue-specific RNA processing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6256-6263

  Qi, Junlin ^a,b   Su, Shihuang ^a,b   McGuffin, M Elaine ^a,b   Mattox, William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLESEX PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FRUITLESS PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; TRANSFORMER 2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GERM LINE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRONS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 33845610174     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl755     Document Type: Article

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