Targeting of U2AF65 to sites of active splicing in the nucleus

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 975-987

  Gama Carvalho, Margarida ^a   Krauss, Randy D ^b,c   Chiang, Lijian ^b   Valcárcel, Juan ^b,d   Green, Michael R ^b   Carmo Fonseca, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030612083     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.5.975     Document Type: Article

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