Protein phosphatase 1 binds to the RNA recognition motif of several splicing factors and regulates alternative pre-mRNA processing

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-70

  Novoyatleva, Tatyana ^a   Heinrich, Bettina ^a   Tang, Yesheng ^a   Benderska, Natalya ^a   Butchbach, Matthew E R ^d   Lorson, Christian L ^e   Lorson, Monique A ^e   Ben Dov, Claudia ^b   Fehlbaum, Pascale ^c   Bracco, Laurent ^c   Burghes, Arthur H M ^d   Bollen, Mathieu ^f   Stamm, Stefan ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c Exonhit   (France)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR SIGNALING   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN ASF; PROTEIN SF2; PROTEIN SRP30C; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; TRANSFORMER2 BETA1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 37549002103     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm284     Document Type: Article

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