Clamydomonas U2, U4 and U6 snRNAs. An evolutionary conserved putative third interaction between U4 and U6 snRNAs which has a counterpart in the U4(atac)-U6(atac) snRNA duplex

Biochimie

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 387-395

  Jakab, G ^a   Mougin, A ^b   Kis, M ^a   Pollak T ^a   Antal, M ^a   Branlant, C ^b   Solymosy, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Green algae; Phylogenesis; Pre mRNA splicing; U2, U4 and U6 RNAs

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GREEN ALGA; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RATS; RNA; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0030611726     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9084(97)86148-2     Document Type: Article

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