RNA landscape of evolution for optimal exon and intron discrimination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5797-5802

  Zhang, Chaolin ^a,b   Li, Wen Hsiung ^c   Krainer, Adrian R ^a   Zhang, Michael Q ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA strand asymmetry; Exon and intron recognition; Exon identity elements; Intron identity elements; Splicing regulatory elements

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 44449115151     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801692105     Document Type: Article

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