Identification of proteins that interact with exon sequences, splice sites, and the branchpoint sequence during each stage of spliceosome assembly

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3317-3326

  Chiara, Maria Dolores ^a   Gozani, O R ^a   Bennett, Maria ^a   Champion Arnaud, Patrick ^a   Palandjian, Leon ^a   Reed, Robin ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

EID: 0029894931     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3317     Document Type: Article

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