Cross-talk in transcription, splicing and chromatin: Who makes the first call?

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1251-1256

  Alexander, Ross ^a   Beggs, Jean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling; Histone modification; Nucleosome; RNA polymerase; Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP); Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

CHROMATIN; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957285756     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0381251     Document Type: Review

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