Alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated RNA decay contribute to the regulation of SHOX expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Durand, Claudia ^a   Roeth, Ralph ^a   Dweep, Harsh ^a   Vlatkovic, Irena ^b   Decker, Eva ^a   Schneider, Katja Ute ^a   Rappold, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SHOX PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; FETUS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SHOX GENE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; BINDING SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY; STOP CODON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BINDING SITES; CODON, NONSENSE; EXONS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 79952917725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018115     Document Type: Article

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