Staying on message: Ensuring fidelity in pre-mRNA splicing

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 263-273

  Semlow, Daniel R ^a   Staley, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; H BOX ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84862865359     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2012.04.001     Document Type: Review

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