Alternative splicing during Arabidopsis flower development results in constitutive and stage-regulated isoforms.

ABSTRACT: Alternative splicing (AS) is a process in eukaryotic gene expression, in which the primary transcript of a multi-exon gene is spliced into two or more different mature transcripts, thereby increasing proteome diversity. AS is often regulated differentially between different tissues or developmental stages. Recent studies suggested that up to 60% of intron-containing genes in Arabidopsis thaliana undergo AS. Yet little is known about this complicated and important process during floral development. To investigate the preferential expression of different isoforms of individual alternatively spliced genes, we used high throughput RNA-Seq technology to explore the transcriptomes of three floral development stages of Arabidopsis thaliana and obtained information of various AS events. We identif

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3921568 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature