A regulator of Dscam mutually exclusive splicing fidelity

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1134-1140

  Olson, Sara ^a   Blanchette, Marco ^b,e   Park, Jung ^a   Savva, Yiannis ^a,f   Yeo, Gene W ^c   Yeakley, Joanne M ^d   Rio, Donald C ^b   Graveley, Brenton R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^e STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN HRP36; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DSCAM GENE; EXON; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 36849015934     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1339     Document Type: Article

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