A network of conserved co-occurring motifs for the regulation of alternative splicing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7916-7926

  Suyama, Mikita ^a,b   Harrington, Eoghan D ^a   Vinokourova, Svetlana ^c   Von Knebel Doeberitz, Magnus ^c   Ohara, Osamu ^d,e   Bork, Peer ^a,f  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^f MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON SKIPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FETUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; INTRON RETENTION; MALE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 78650503221     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq705     Document Type: Article

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