Intronic snoRNA biosynthesis in saccharomyces cerevisiae depends on the lariat-debranching enzyme: Intron length effects and activity of a precursor snoRNA

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1096-1110

  Ooi, Siew Loon ^a   Samarsky, Dmitry A ^b,c   Fournier, Maurille J ^b   Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

DBR1; Intronic snoRNA processing; rRNA methylation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTRONS; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0000866275     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980785     Document Type: Article

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