Splice junctions are constrained by protein disorder

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4814-4822

  Smithers, Ben ^a   Oates, Matt E ^a   Gough, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SPLICE JUNCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; EUKARYOTA; EXONS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 84931275197     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv407     Document Type: Article

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