Mechanisms of alternative splicing regulation: Insights from molecular and genomics approaches

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 741-754

  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

MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RNA PRECURSORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 70350569286     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2777     Document Type: Review

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