Alternative splicing in ascomycetes

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4235-4241

  Kempken, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Extend and types of alternative splicing; Regulation; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ASCOMYCETES; GENOMIC-SCALE ANALYSIS; HETEROLOGOUS SYSTEMS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PUTATIVE PROTEINS; REGULATION; SPLICEOSOMES;

RNA;

FUNGI;

APTAMER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN VARIANT; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; THIAMINE;

EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; YEAST;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EXON; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MONASCUS PILOSUS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOKONTA; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPLICEOSOME; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ASCOMYCOTA; YEASTS;

ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84877761989     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4841-x     Document Type: Review

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