An integrated regulatory network reveals pervasive cross-regulation among transcription and splicing factors

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kosti, Idit ^a   Radivojac, Predrag ^b   Mandel Gutfreund, Yael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CROSS REGULATION; GENES EXPRESSION; HUMAN PROTEINS; INTEGRATED NETWORKS; PROTEIN TRANSLATION; REGULATORY NETWORK; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICING FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84864624361     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002603     Document Type: Article

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