Phosphorylation switches the general splicing repressor SRp38 to a sequence-specific activator

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1040-1048

  Feng, Ying ^a   Chen, Mo ^a   Manley, James L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR B; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SRP 38; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR A; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR B; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR C; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; EXONS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 53549089314     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1485     Document Type: Article

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