Efficient internal exon recognition depends on near equal contributions from the 3′ and 5′ splice sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8928-8937

  Shepard, Peter J ^a   Choi, Eun A ^a   Busch, Anke ^a   Hertel, Klemens J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTROPY; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; RNA SPLICE SITES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80455124128     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr481     Document Type: Article

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