Playing inside the genes: Intragenic histone acetylation after membrane depolarization of neural cells opens a path for alternative splicing regulation

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-343

  Schor, Ignacio E ^a   Kornblihtt, Alberto R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chromatin; Histone acetylation; NCAM; Neuronal excitation; Structure; Transcriptional elongation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249104635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.4.8550     Document Type: Article

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