Length changes in the joining segment between domains 5 and 6 of a group II intron inhibit self-splicing and alter 3' splice site selection

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 5896-5904

  Boulanger, Scott C ^a   Faix, Peggy Ho ^b   Yang, Haiyan ^b   Zhuo, Jin ^b   Franzen, James S ^b   Peebles, Craig L ^b   Perlman, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029818398     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.10.5896     Document Type: Article

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