Exon Junction Complexes Show a Distributional Bias toward Alternatively Spliced mRNAs and against mRNAs Coding for Ribosomal Proteins

Cell Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1588-1603

  Hauer, Christian ^a,b,c   Sieber, Jana ^a,b   Schwarzl, Thomas ^c   Hollerer, Ina ^a,b,c   Curk, Tomaz ^c,d   Alleaume, Anne Marie ^c   Hentze, Matthias W ^b,c   Kulozik, Andreas E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU)   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4A3; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN SERINE RICH DOMAIN 1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPFRAMESHIFT PROTEIN 3B; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; EXON; EXON JUNCTION COMPLEX; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MRNA CODING; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA BINDING; RNA FRAGMENTATION; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL MEMBRANE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL MEMBRANE; EXONS; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84979763375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.096     Document Type: Article

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