Position-dependent alternative splicing activity revealed by global profiling of alternative splicing events regulated by PTB

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1114-1123

  Llorian, Miriam ^a   Schwartz, Schraga ^b   Clark, Tyson A ^c   Hollander, Dror ^b   Tan, Lit Yeen ^a   Spellman, Rachel ^a,d,e   Gordon, Adele ^a   Schweitzer, Anthony C ^c   De La Grange, Pierre ^d   Ast, Gil ^b   Smith, Christopher W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 77956342570     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1881     Document Type: Article

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