Mechanisms for U2AF to define 3â €2 splice sites and regulate alternative splicing in the human genome

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 997-1005

  Shao, Changwei ^a   Yang, Bo ^b   Wu, Tongbin ^c   Huang, Jie ^d   Tang, Peng ^a   Zhou, Yu ^c   Zhou, Jie ^b   Qiu, Jinsong ^a   Jiang, Li ^a   Li, Hairi ^c   Chen, Geng ^a   Sun, Hui ^b   Zhang, Yi ^d   Denise, Alain ^b   Zhang, Dong Er ^d   Fu, Xiang Dong ^a,c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODIMER; PROTEIN; PROTEIN U2AF; PROTEIN U2AF35; PROTEIN U2AF65; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA SPLICING; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF; U2AF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; LEUKEMIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

MAMMALIA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 84908879645     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2906     Document Type: Article

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