Cell-Type-Specific Alternative Splicing Governs Cell Fate in the Developing Cerebral Cortex

Cell

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1147-1162.e15

  Zhang, Xiaochang ^a,b   Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Wu, Xuebing ^c,d   Kodani, Andrew ^e   Fan, Jean ^b,f   Doan, Ryan ^a,b   Ozawa, Manabu ^g   Ma, Jacqueline ^a   Yoshida, Nobuaki ^g   Reiter, Jeremy F ^e   Black, Douglas L ^h   Kharchenko, Peter V ^b,f   Sharp, Phillip A ^c   Walsh, Christopher A ^a,b,f,i  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

filamin A; microcephaly; mother centriole; Ninein; periventricular nodular heterotopia; Ptbp1; Rbfox

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; PTBP1 PROTEIN; RBFOX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; NIN PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; PTBP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RBFOX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RNA SPLICING FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FATE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; EXON; EXON SKIPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; ABNORMALITIES; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EXONS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING FACTORS;

EID: 84983740603     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.07.025     Document Type: Article

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