A global regulatory mechanism for activating an exon network required for neurogenesis

Molecular Cell

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-103

  Raj, Bushra ^a   Irimia, Manuel ^a   Braunschweig, Ulrich ^a   Sterne Weiler, Timothy ^a   O'Hanlon, Dave ^a   Lin, Zhen Yuan ^b   Chen, Ginny I ^b   Easton, Laura E ^c   Ule, Jernej ^c,d   Gingras, Anne Claude ^a,b   Eyras, Eduardo ^e,f   Blencowe, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; EXON SKIPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SPLICEOSOME; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PHYSIOLOGY;

VERTEBRATA;

NERVE PROTEIN; NSR100 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS;

EID: 84919923533     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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