The yeast SME1 gene encodes the homologue of the human E core protein

Gene

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 111-117

  Bordonné, Rémy ^a   Tarassov, Ivan ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sm protein; Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein; Small nuclear RNA; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA CAPPING; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030591812     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00230-2     Document Type: Article

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