Regulation of alternative splicing by the core spliceosomal machinery

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 373-384

  Saltzman, Arneet L ^a   Pan, Qun ^a   Blencowe, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Autoregulation; Exon network; NMD; Sm proteins; snRNP

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMB; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; SPLICEOSOME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 79951715071     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.2004811     Document Type: Article

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