The Exon Junction Complex: A Multitasking Guardian of the Transcriptome

Calvin S Leung; Tracy L Johnson

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2018.11.030

The Exon Junction Complex: A Multitasking Guardian of the Transcriptome

Mol Cell. 2018 Dec 6;72(5):799-801. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.11.030.

Authors

Calvin S Leung¹, Tracy L Johnson²

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Boehm et al. (2018), Blazquez et al. (2018), and Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis et al. (2018) uncover novel mechanisms by which the cell regulates splicing of cryptic splice sites and microexons.

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Cell Nucleus
Exons
RNA Splice Sites*
RNA Splicing
Transcriptome*

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RNA Splice Sites

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