The human U4/U6 snRNP contains 60 and 90kD proteins that are structurally homologous to the yeast splicing factors Prp4p and Prp3p

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 926-941

  Lauber, Jürgen ^a,d   Plessel, Gabriele ^a   Prehn, Siegfried ^b   Will, Cindy L ^a   Fabrizio, Patrizia ^a   Gröning, Karsten ^a   Lane, William S ^c   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d QIAGEN GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA splicing; SnRNP protein; WD repeat

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HELA CELL; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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