Highly diverged U4 and U6 small nuclear RNAs required for splicing rare AT-AC introns

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5283, 1996, Pages 1824-1832

  Tarn, Woan Yuh ^a,b   Steitz, Joan A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; MESSENGER RNA; PSORALEN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRON; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

EID: 0029763477     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5283.1824     Document Type: Article

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62. We are grateful to R. Reddy (Baylor College of Medicine) for providing anti-meATP and C. Guthrie and D. Brow for suggestions on Rg. 6B. We thank T. Yario for technical assistance, T. McConnell for helpful suggestions on the calculation of ΔG°. and Y.-T. Yu for sharing his protocol of cDNA construction. We also thank T. Nilsen, K. Tycowski, T. McConnell, A. Parker, and Y.-T. Yu for valuable comments on the manuscript. Supported by grant GM26154 from NIH.