Lost in translation: Pitfalls in deciphering plant alternative splicing transcripts

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2083-2087

  Brown, John W S ^a,b   Simpson, Craig G ^b   Marquez, Yamile ^c   Gadd, Geoffrey M ^a   Barta, Andrea ^c   Kalyna, Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

0000 0001 6874 870X (G.M.G.); 0000 0002 1723 1492 (C.G.S.); 0000 0002 8851 406X (A.B.); 0000 0003 1686 5992 (Y.M.); 0000 0003 2979 779X (J.W.S.B.); 0000 0003 4702 7625 (M.K.)

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84941272877     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00572     Document Type: Article

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