Functional selection and systematic analysis of intronic splicing elements identify active sequence motifs and associated splicing factors

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5152-5165

  Culler, Stephanie J ^a   Hoff, Kevin G ^a   Voelker, Rodger B ^b   Berglund, J Andrew ^b   Smolke, Christina D ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; INTRONIC SPLICING REGULATORY ELEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CELL LINE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; INTRONS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 77956119780     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq248     Document Type: Article

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