Genomic mRNA profiling reveals compensatory mechanisms for the requirement of the essential splicing factor U2AF

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 652-661

  Sridharan, Vinod ^a   Heimiller, Joseph ^a   Singh, Ravinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN U2AF; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 79251571755     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01000-10     Document Type: Article

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