Introduction to cotranscriptional RNA splicing

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1126, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-96

  Merkhofer, Evan C ^a   Hu, Peter ^a   Johnson, Tracy L ^b  

^a SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotranscriptional; Intron; RNA; RNA polymerase II; Spliceosome; Splicing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA PRECURSORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84934444376     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-980-2_6     Document Type: Review

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