Alternative Splicing: Cell‐type‐specific and Developmental Control
Juan Valcárcel, ICREA and Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona, Spain
Christopher WJ Smith, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Published online: January 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003835
Abstract
Alternative splicing is a process that allows individual genes to produce multiple functionally distinct protein isoforms.
The production of alternatively spliced isoforms is usually controlled in a cell type or developmentally regulated manner.
Keywords: RNA splicing; intron; gene expression; isoforms
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