Multifactorial interplay controls the splicing profile of Alu-derived exons

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3513-3525

  Ram, Oren ^a   Schwartz, Schraga ^a   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

PRIMATES;

EID: 43249117483     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.02279-07     Document Type: Article

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