Position-dependent and neuron-specific splicing regulation by the CELF family RNA-binding protein UNC-75 in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4015-4025

  Kuroyanagi, Hidehito ^a,b,c   Watanabe, Yohei ^a,b   Suzuki, Yutaka ^d   Hagiwara, Masatoshi ^a,b,e  

^a Graduate School of Biomedical Science   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELF PROTEIN; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNC 75 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; UNC 75 GENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EXONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTRONS; NEURONS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 84876555601     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt097     Document Type: Article

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