Intronic features that determine the selection of the 3′ splice site

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 707-717

  Pérez Valle, Jorge ^a   Vilardell, Josep ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE;

3' SPLICE SITE; ACCURACY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTA; HUMANS; INTRONS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84867598877     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1131     Document Type: Review

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