Mutagenesis of the yeast gene PRP8 reveals domains governing the specificity and fidelity of 3′ splice site selection

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 723-739

  Umen, James G ^a   Guthrie, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0030030194     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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