Institution/s: Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid
Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 120
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Isaac MORENO RUIZ, Patricia ROJO DE DOMINGO, Rosario HERRERO
Creation / modification date: 02-02-2014
Term: splicing
Gramatical category: s
Definition: The process in which fragments of DNA from one or more different organisms are combined to form recombinant DNA.
Context: (…) Thus, gene splicing enables a single gene to increase its coding capacity, allowing the synthesis of protein isoforms that are structurally and functionally distinct.
Weighting mark: nor
Sources:
Term: EMERY, A. (2009), Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona: Ed. Elsevier, 13ª Edición (revisión científica a cargo del Dr. Rafael Oliva Virgili).
Definition: DORLAND B. Diccionario enciclopédico ilustrado de medicina (2 vols.). Madrid: McGraw-Hill; 1992.
Context: FRECHTEL, G. (2005). El ARN de interferencia Bioquimia [en línea]. Consultado el 28 de enero de 2014 Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57630401. ISSN 0185-5751