The spliceosome as a transposon sensor

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1653-1660

  Dumesic, Phillip A ^a   Hiten, D ^a   Madhani, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome defense; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA interference; RNA processing; Small RNA; Spliceosome; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BIOGENESIS; BIOSENSOR; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; PLANT; POLYADENYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

GENOME DEFENSE; PRE-MRNA SPLICING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SMALL RNA; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84890389470     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.26800     Document Type: Review

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