Lives that introns lead after splicing

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 677-691

  Hesselberth, Jay R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; EXORIBONUCLEASE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MICRORNA; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOZYME; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EXON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HELA CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; INTRON; LIFE CYCLE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPLICEOSOME; TRANS SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIRUS LATENCY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EUKARYOTA; EXONS; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84885700812     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1187     Document Type: Review

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