Diversifying Exon Code through A-to-I RNA Editing

RNA and DNA Editing: Molecular Mechanisms and Their Integration into Biological Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-30

  Gommans, Willemijn M ^a   Dupuis, Dylan E ^a   Mccane, Jill E ^a   Tatalias, Nicholas E ^a   Maas, Stefan ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein domains and subdomains inclusion or omission; Protein coding sequences; RNA targeted recoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889317062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470262269.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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