U2AF65 recruits a novel human DEAD box protein required for the U2 snRNP-branchpoint interaction

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1864-1872

  Fleckner, Jan ^a,b   Zhang, Meng ^a   Valcárcel, Juan ^a,c   Green, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branchpoint; DEAD box protein; Pre mRNA splicing; U2 snRNP; U2AF65

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA DEPENDENT ATPASE; RNA-DEPENDENT ATPASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; GENETICS; HELA CELL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0030611640     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.14.1864     Document Type: Article

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