Spliceosome twin introns in fungal nuclear transcripts

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-57

  Flipphi, Michel ^a   Fekete, Erzsébet ^a   Ág, Norbert ^a   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^b,c   Karaffa, Levente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungi; Intron late theory; Nuclear transcripts; Sequential splicing; Spliceosomal twin introns; Stwintronisation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABINOSE INDUCIBLE MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILY GENE; ARTICLE; BIODA GENE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTERNAL INTRON; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; FUSARIUM MONILIFORME; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM PSEUDOGRAMINEARUM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOCREA JECORINA; INTERNAL INTRON; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTATIVE IMIDINE HYDROLASE PARALOGUE 1 GENE; PUTATIVE IMIDINE HYDROLASE PARALOGUE 2 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; SPLICEOSOME TWIN INTRON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; INTRON LATE THEORY; NUCLEAR TRANSCRIPTS; SEQUENTIAL SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMAL TWIN INTRONS; STWINTRONISATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHLOROPLASTS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INTRONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84881109466     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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