Modulating alternative splicing by cotranscriptional cleavage of nascent intronic RNA

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 359-366

  Gromak, Natalia ^a   Talotti, Gabriele ^b   Proudfoot, Nicholas J ^a   Pagani, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

tropomyosin gene; Alternative splicing regulation; Fibronectin gene; Ribozyme; RNA polymerase II

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TROPOMYOSIN; FIBRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; FIBRONECTINS; GLOBINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 38649091655     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.615508     Document Type: Article

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