Altered mRNA splicing in SMN-depleted motor neuron-like cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Custer, Sara K ^a   Gilson, Timra D ^a   Li, Hongxia ^a   Todd, A Gary ^a   Astroski, Jacob W ^a   Lin, Hai ^a   Liu, Yunlong ^a   Androphy, Elliot J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON SKIPPING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON RETENTION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RIT1 GENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPLICING DEFECT; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODEL; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RNA SPLICING; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84991581731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163954     Document Type: Article

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