Context-dependent control of alternative splicing by RNA-binding proteins

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 689-701

  Fu, Xiang Dong ^a   Ares, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BINDING AFFINITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SPLICING REGULATORY ELEMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BINDING SITE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84922255144     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3778     Document Type: Review

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