Alternative Splicing and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jeanteur, Philippe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, 44
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Molecular biology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Molecular Medicine.; Biochemistry, general.

Splicing of primary RNA transcript, i.e. removal of introns and joining of exons to produce mature mRNAs competent for translation into proteins, is a quasi-systematic step of gene expression in higher organisms. However, this process is not unequivocal but can follow alternate pathways. Alternative...