Splicing of many human genes involves sites embedded within introns

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4721-4732

  Kelly, Steven ^a   Georgomanolis, Theodore ^b   Zirkel, Anne ^b   Diermeier, Sarah ^c   O'Reilly, Dawn ^d   Murphy, Shona ^d   Längst, Gernot ^c   Cook, Peter R ^d   Papantonis, Argyris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA SPLICING; SAMD4A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENETICS; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SAMD4A GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

CELLS, CULTURED; EXONS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84936804388     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv386     Document Type: Article

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