Alternative splicing of transcripts of the transposon Restless is maintained in the foreign host Neurospora crassa and can be modified by introducing mutations at the 5′ and 3′ splice sites

Current Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-65

  Kempken, Frank ^a   Windhofer, Frank ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Neurospora crassa; Restless; Splice site mutations

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN RESTLESS; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EUMYCOTA; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TOLYPOCLADIUM INFLATUM; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; TOLYPOCLADIUM; TOLYPOCLADIUM INFLATUM; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4043080529     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0510-z     Document Type: Article

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