αcP binding to a cytosine-rich subset of polypyrimidine tracts drives a novel pathway of cassette exon splicing in the mammalian transcriptome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2283-2297

  Ji, Xinjun ^a   Park, Juw Won ^b,c,d   Bahrami Samani, Emad ^b   Lin, Lan ^b   Duncan Lewis, Christopher ^a   Pherribo, Gordon ^a   Xing, Yi ^b   Liebhaber, Stephen A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Louisville ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHACP PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; U2AF65 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CDK2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 2; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PCBP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PCBP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POLYMER; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SH2B1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF; U2AF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CASSETTE EXON; CYTOSINE RICH POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT; EXON; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; K-562 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 2; CYTOSINE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; K562 CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERS; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRIMIDINES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84963830550     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw088     Document Type: Article

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