Introns Regulate Gene Expression in Cryptococcus neoformans in a Pab2p Dependent Pathway

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Goebels, Carolin ^a   Thonn, Aline ^a   Gonzalez Hilarion, Sara ^a   Rolland, Olga ^a   Moyrand, Frederique ^a   Beilharz, Traude H ^b   Janbon, Guilhem ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEASE; POLYADENYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN RRP44P; PROTEIN XRN2P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAS3 GENE; CID14 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOSOME; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RRP6 GENE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INTRONS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; POLY A; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEIN II; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84884656571     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003686     Document Type: Article

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