Violating the splicing rules: TG dinucleotides function as alternative 3′ splice sites in U2-dependent introns

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Szafranski, Karol ^a   Schindler, Stefanie ^a   Taudien, Stefan ^a   Hiller, Michael ^b   Huse, Klaus ^a   Jahn, Niels ^a   Schreiber, Stefan ^c   Backofen, Rolf ^b   Platzer, Matthias ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; THYMIDINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U2 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FROG; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERTEBRATE; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

ANURA; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, HUMAN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 39749089458     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-8-r154     Document Type: Article

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