A protein of the SR family of splicing factors binds extensively to exonic Balbiani ring pre-mRNA and accompanies the RNA from the gene to the nuclear pore

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 2881-2893

  Alzhanova Ericsson, Alla T ^a   Sun, Xin ^a   Visa, Neus ^a   Kiseleva, Elena ^a   Wurtz, Tilmann ^a   Daneholt, Bertil ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

exon RNA; hnRNP proteins; nuclear pore; nucleo cytoplasmic transport; RNP particles; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BALBIANI RING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING; SALIVARY GLAND;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS;

EID: 0029807798     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.22.2881     Document Type: Article

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