Getting under the skin of alternative splicing: identification of epithelial-specific splicing factors.
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چکیده
Alternative splicing patterns are regulated by factors that direct the activity of the spliceosome. In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Warzecha et al. (2009) identify two new splicing regulators whose epithelial-specific expression induces several tissue-specific splicing events.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Molecular cell
دوره 33 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009