The role of polypyrimidine tract-binding proteins and other hnRNP proteins in plant splicing regulation

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Wachter, Andreas ^a   Rühl, Christina ^a   Stauffer, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein; hnRNP; Polypyrimidine tract binding protein; PTB; Splicing regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871188835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00081     Document Type: Review

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