Interactions of the yeast U6 RNA with the pre-mRNA branch site

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1110-1123

  McPheeters, David S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

messenger RNA; RNA; RNA catalysis; RNA splicing; U2 RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029959586     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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