Alternative Splicing May Not Be the Key to Proteome Complexity

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 98-110

  Tress, Michael L ^a   Abascal, Federico ^a,b   Valencia, Alfonso ^a  

^a Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; dominant isoforms; functional isoforms; homology; proteomics; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EXON; GENE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; GENETICS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EXONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 85000842751     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.08.008     Document Type: Review

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