Functionally redundant interactions between U2 and U6 spliceosomal snRNAs

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 489-501

  Field, Deborah J ^b   Friesen, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

allele specific suppression; Pre mRNA splicing; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; synthetic lethality; U2 U6 helices

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; LETHAL GENE; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPRESSOR GENE; YEAST;

EID: 0029979220     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.4.489     Document Type: Article

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