Alternative splicing of pre-messenger RNAs in plants in the genomic era

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 267-294

  Reddy, Anireddy S N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

mRNA metabolism; Pre mRNA splicing; Serine arginine rich (SR) proteins; Splicing factors; Stresses

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SERINE ARGININE RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; SERINE-ARGININE-RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RICE; SPLICEOSOME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EXONS; GENOMICS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORYZA SATIVA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, PLANT; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34250813107     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.58.032806.103754     Document Type: Review

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