Stoichiometry of a regulatory splicing complex revealed by single-molecule analyses

EMBO Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2161-2172

  Cherny, Dmitry ^a   Gooding, Clare ^b   Eperon, Giles E ^a   Coelho, Miguel B ^b   Bagshaw, Clive R ^a   Smith, Christopher W J ^b   Eperon, Ian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; polypyrimidine tract binding protein; repression; single molecule; stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TROPOMYOSIN; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SINGLE MOLECULE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; EXONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOBLEACHING; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 77954957530     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.103     Document Type: Article

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