The SL1 trans-spliced leader RNA performs an essential embryonic function in Caenorhabditis elegans that can also be supplied by SL2 RNA

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1543-1556

  Ferguson, Kimberly C ^a   Heid, Paul J ^a   Rothman, Joel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; embryogenesis; ribosomal RNA; RNA processing; trans splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RIBOSOME RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0029744565     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.12.1543     Document Type: Article

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