More than a splicing code: Integrating the role of RNA, chromatin and non-coding RNA in alternative splicing regulation

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 366-372

  Luco, Reini F ^a   Misteli, Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CAMPTOTHECIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBRONECTIN RECEPTOR; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SPLICING DEFECT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 79957543093     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.03.004     Document Type: Review

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