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Polypyrimidine tract

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Gooding C, Roberts GC, Moreau G, Nadal-Ginard B, Smith CW. (1994). Smooth muscle-specific switching of alpha-tropomyosin mutually exclusive exon selection by specific inhibition of the strong default exon.
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Gooding C, Roberts GC, Smith CW. (1998). Role of an inhibitory pyrimidine element and polypyrimidine tract binding protein in repression of a regulated alpha-tropomyosin exon.
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A number of protein factors bind to or associate with the polypyrimidine tract, including the spliceosome component U2AF and the
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silencing, by which a particular exon region normally spliced into the mature mRNA is instead left out, resulting in the
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Wagner EJ, Garcia-Blanco MA. (2001). Polypyrimidine tract binding protein antagonizes exon definition.
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Lodish H, Berk A, Matsudaira P, Kaiser CA, Krieger M, Scott MP, Zipursky SL, Darnell J. (2004).
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express alternate isoforms distinguished by mutually exclusive exon selection in alpha-
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The essential spliceosome component U2AF bound to a short polypyrimidine RNA fragment.
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The suppression or selection of exons is critical to the proper expression of
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A pyrimidine-rich sequence involved in pre-messenger RNA maturation
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pre-messenger RNA
spliceosome
protein complex
RNA splicing
post-transcriptional modification
pyrimidine
nucleotides
uracil
base pairs
3' end
intron
polypyrimidine tract-binding protein
alternative splicing
exon
expression
isoform
codes
eukaryotes
splice sites
tissue
smooth muscle
skeletal muscle
tropomyosin
Categories
Gene expression
Spliceosome

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