Conserved functional antagonism of CELF and MBNL proteins controls stem cell-specific alternative splicing in planarians

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue AUGUST, 2016, Pages

  Solana, Jordi ^a   Irimia, Manuel ^b,c   Ayoub, Salah ^a   Orejuela, Marta Rodriguez ^a   Zywitza, Vera ^a   Jens, Marvin ^a   Tapial, Javier ^b,c   Ray, Debashish ^d   Morris, Quaid ^d,e   Hughes, Timothy R ^d,e   Blencowe, Benjamin J ^d,e   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA STRUCTURE; EXON; GENE DISRUPTION; INTRON; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; PLANARIANS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84983050388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.16797.001     Document Type: Article

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