Modulating role of RNA structure in alternative splicing of a critical exon in the spinal muscular atrophy genes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 371-389

  Singh, Natalia N ^a   Singh, Ravindra N ^a   Androphy, Elliot J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXON; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; EXONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA STABILITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 33846925650     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1050     Document Type: Article

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