Rbfox2-coordinated alternative splicing of Mef2d and Rock2 controls myoblast fusion during myogenesis

Molecular Cell

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 592-603

  Singh, Ravi K ^a   Xia, Zheng ^a   Bland, Christopher S ^a   Kalsotra, Auinash ^a,d   Scavuzzo, Marissa A ^a   Curk, Tomaz ^b   Ule, Jernej ^c   Li, Wei ^a   Cooper, Thomas A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2A PROTEIN; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2B PROTEIN; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2C PROTEIN; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2D PROTEIN; RBFOX1 PROTEIN; RBFOX2 PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ROCK2 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TROPONIN T; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MEF2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLASTS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84906791713     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.06.035     Document Type: Article

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