Regulation of alternative splicing by local histone modifications: Potential roles for RNA-guided mechanisms

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 701-713

  Zhou, Hua Lin ^a   Luo, Guangbin ^b,c   Wise, Jo Ann ^d   Lou, Hua ^b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences ^*  (France)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HISTONE H3; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENETIC REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; HISTONES; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84893210532     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt875     Document Type: Article

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