Insertion of spliceosomal introns in proto-splice sites: The case of secretory signal peptides

FEBS Letters

Volumn 575, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 109-111

  Tordai, Hedvig ^a   Patthy, László ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Exon intron structure; Intron insertion; Proto splice site; Signal peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPLICEOSOME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 4544244620     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.08.045     Document Type: Article

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