Noncanonical registers and base pairs in human 5′ splice-site selection

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3908-3921

  Tan, Jiazi ^a   Ho, Jia Xin Jessie ^a   Zhong, Zhensheng ^b   Luo, Shufang ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Roca, Xavier ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; URIDINE; RNA SPLICE SITE; U1 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; RNA SPLICE SITE;

BASE PAIRING; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; URIDINE;

EID: 84966340231     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw163     Document Type: Article

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