Splicing of internal large exons is defined by novel cis-acting sequence elements

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 9244-9254

  Bolisetty, Mohan T ^a   Beemon, Karen L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SPLICING; ENHANCER REGION; ENTROPY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICE SITES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84867558281     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks652     Document Type: Article

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