Extensive coupling of alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs of serine/arginine (SR) genes with nonsense-mediated decay

New Phytologist

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-89

  Palusa, Saiprasad G ^a   Reddy, Anireddy S N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis; Nonsense mediated decay (NMD); Serine arginine rich proteins; Splice variants

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGININE; RNA PRECURSOR; SERINE; UPF3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID; DICOTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACIDS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGININE; CODON, NONSENSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; SERINE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 71249104734     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03065.x     Document Type: Article

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