Identification of an intronic splicing regulatory element involved in auto-regulation of alternative splicing of SCL33 pre-mRNA

Plant Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 935-946

  Thomas, Julie ^a   Palusa, Saiprasad G ^a   Prasad, Kasavajhala V S K ^a   Ali, Gul Shad ^a   Surabhi, Giridara Kumar ^a   Ben Hur, Asa ^b   Abdel Ghany, Salah E ^a   Reddy, Anireddy S N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis thaliana; Plants; Pre mRNA splicing; SCL33; Splicing regulatory elements; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PLANTS; PRE-MRNA; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; SCL33; SR PROTEIN; PRE-MRNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACIDS; GENES;

PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGININE; PLANT RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SERINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOPLAST; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGININE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTOPLASTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE;

EID: 84871998837     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12004     Document Type: Article

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