In vivo effects on intron retention and exon skipping by the U2AF large subunit and SF1/BBP in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2201-2211

  Ma, Long ^a   Tan, Zhiping ^b   Teng, Yanling ^a   Hoersch, Sebastian ^c,d   Horvitz, H Robert ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; C. elegans; SFA 1; UAF 1

Indexed keywords

BRANCHPOINT BINDING PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HELMINTH RNA; SPLICING FACTOR 1; TOS 1 PROTEIN; U2 AUXILIARY FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON SKIPPING; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON RETENTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; INTRONS; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 81755161587     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.027458.111     Document Type: Article

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