U12-dependent intron splicing in plants

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 326, Issue , 2008, Pages 61-82

  Simpson, C G ^a   Brown, J W S ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DNA REPLICATION; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTRON; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; PLANTS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 51149088378     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76776-3_4     Document Type: Review

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