Regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1126, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-82

  Coelho, Miguel B ^a   Smith, Christopher W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Isoforms; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA binding proteins; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA FOLDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL LINE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84934435678     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-980-2_5     Document Type: Article

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