Design principles of interconnections between chromatin and pre-mRNA splicing

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 248-253

  de Almeida, Sérgio F ^a   Carmo Fonseca, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Regulatory networks; RNA polymerase II; Splicing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC REGULATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ACETYLATION; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84861925259     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2012.02.002     Document Type: Review

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