RNA secondary structure in mutually exclusive splicing

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-169

  Yang, Yun ^a   Zhan, Leilei ^a   Zhang, Wenjing ^a   Sun, Feng ^a   Wang, Wenfeng ^a   Tian, Nan ^a   Bi, Jingpei ^a   Wang, Haitao ^a   Shi, Dike ^a   Jiang, Yajian ^a   Zhang, Yaozhou ^b   Jin, Yongfeng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EXONS; GENES, INSECT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79551653312     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1959     Document Type: Article

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