Alternative splicing of mutually exclusive exons-A review

BioSystems

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-38

  Pohl, Martin ^a   Bortfeldt, Ralf H ^b   Grützmann, Konrad ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Exon clusters; Mutually exclusive exons; Non sense mediated decay; Splicing mechanisms

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; EUKARYOTE; PROTEIN; RNA; VIRUS;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOINFORMATICS; EXON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING;

EUKARYOTA;

RNA PRECURSOR; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84881492006     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: 18728324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2013.07.003     Document Type: Review

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