Competing RNA secondary structures are required for mutually exclusive splicing of the Dscam exon 6 cluster

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 222-229

  May, Gemma E ^a   Sara, Olson ^a   McManus, C Joel ^a   Graveley, Brenton R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Bioinformatics; Recombineering; RNA structure; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DSCAM GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MUTATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78751475623     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2521311     Document Type: Article

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