RNA structure is a key regulatory element in pathology ATM and CFTR pseudoexon inclusion events

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4369-4383

  Buratti, Emanuele ^a   Dhir, Ashish ^a   Lewandowska, Marzena A ^a,b   Baralle, Francisco E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CFTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RNA PRECURSOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 34547850638     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm447     Document Type: Article

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