Multiple links between transcription and splicing

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1489-1498

  Kornblihtt, Alberto R ^a   De La Mata, Manuel ^a   Fededa, Juan Pablo ^a   Muñoz, Manuel J ^a   Nogués, Guadalupe ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Coupling; RNA polymerase II; Splicing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; PGC 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; C TERMINAL DOMAIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MINIGENE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA CAPPING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA POLYADENYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4644334742     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7100104     Document Type: Review

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