Molecular characterization of a novel fission yeast gene spUAP2 that interacts with the splicing factor spU2AF59

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 323-330

  McKinney, Ron ^a   Wentz Hunter, Kelly ^a   Schmidt, Henning ^b   Potashkin, Judith ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA recognition motif; U2AF

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SERINE;

ARTICLE; GENE ISOLATION; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030720045     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050284     Document Type: Article

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