RNA secondary structure mediates alternative 3′ss selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1103-1115

  Plass, Mireya ^a,e   Codony Servat, Carles ^b   Ferreira, Pedro Gabriel ^a,c   Vilardell, Josep ^b,d   Eyras, Eduardo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3 ss; RNA structure; Splicing; Yeast

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84861390545     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.030767.111     Document Type: Article

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