Global identification of hnRNP A1 binding sites for SSO-based splicing modulation

BMC Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bruun, Gitte H ^a   Doktor, Thomas K ^a   Borch Jensen, Jonas ^a   Masuda, Akio ^b   Krainer, Adrian R ^c   Ohno, Kinji ^b   Andresen, Brage S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cross linking immunoprecipitation (CLIP); HnRNP A1; ICLIP; Pseudoexons; RNA seq; Splicing silencer; Splicing splice switching oligonucleotides (SSOs); Surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRi)

Indexed keywords

CROSS LINKING REAGENT; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP A B; HNRNP A1; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA SPLICE SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

A-549 CELL LINE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EXON; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICE SITE; RNA SPLICING;

A549 CELLS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP A-B; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84984622090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-016-0279-9     Document Type: Article

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