The quest for a message: Budding yeast, a model organism to study the control of pre-mRNA splicing

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-67

  Meyer, Markus ^a   Vilardell, Josep ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genomics; Microarrays; Regulated splicing; RNA; Yeast

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MEIOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 63849220247     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp002     Document Type: Article

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