Deletion of many yeast introns reveals a minority of genes that require splicing for function

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1932-1941

  Parenteau, Julie ^a   Durand, Mathieu ^a   Véronneau, Steeve ^a   Lacombe, Andrée Anne ^a   Morin, Geneviève ^a   Guérin, Valérie ^a   Cecez, Bojana ^a   Gervais Bird, Julien ^a   Koh, Chu Shin ^a   Brunelle, David ^a   Wellinger, Raymund J ^a   Chabot, Benoit ^a   Abou Elela, Sherif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CYTOSKELETON; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; YEAST;

CYTOSKELETON; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 48249124553     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E07-12-1254     Document Type: Article

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