Comparative analysis of serine/arginine-rich proteins across 27 eukaryotes: Insights into sub-family classification and extent of alternative splicing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Richardson, Dale N ^a   Rogers, Mark F ^b   Labadorf, Adam ^b   Ben Hur, Asa ^b   Guo, Hui ^d   Paterson, Andrew H ^d   Reddy, Anireddy S N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Colorado State University   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE ARGININE RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; SERINE-ARGININE-RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FLOWERING; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MAIZE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PURIFYING SELECTION; RICE; SOYBEAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GLYCINE MAX; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80052841057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024542     Document Type: Article

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