Silencer elements as possible inhibitors of pseudoexon splicing
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Silencer elements as possible inhibitors of pseudoexon splicing.
Human pre-mRNAs contain a definite number of exons and several pseudoexons which are located within intronic regions. We applied a computational approach to address the question of how pseudoexons are neglected in favor of exons and to possibly identify sequence elements preventing pseudoexon splicing. A search for possible splicing silencers was carried out on a pseudoexon selection that resem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh341