Widespread recognition of 5′ splice sites by noncanonical base-pairing to U1 snRNA involving bulged nucleotides

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1098-1109

  Roca, Xavier ^a,b   Akerman, Martin ^a   Gaus, Hans ^c   Berdeja, Andrés ^c   Bennett, C Frank ^c   Krainer, Adrian R ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

5 splice site; Alternative splicing; Base pairing register; Bulged nucleotide; Splicing mutation; U1 small nuclear RNA

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; U1 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' SPLICE SITE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE PAIRING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84861159694     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.190173.112     Document Type: Article

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