Over-representation of exonic splicing enhancers in human intronless genes suggests multiple functions in mRNA processing

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 322, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 470-476

  Pozzoli, Uberto ^a   Riva, Laura ^b   Menozzi, Giorgia ^a   Cagliani, Rachele ^a   Comi, Giacomo P ^c   Bresolin, Nereo ^a,c   Giorda, Roberto ^a   Sironi, Manuela ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intronless genes; Nuclear export; Splicing enhancers; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SPLICING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 6044239562     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.07.144     Document Type: Article

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