Identification of a human protein that recognizes the 3' splice site during the second step of pre-mRNA splicing

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4421-4432

  Wu, Shaoping ^a   Green, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

3' splice site; Mammalian pre mRNA splicing; Protein splicing factors; Second step of splicing; UV crosslinking

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; SUCCINIMIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030855063     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.14.4421     Document Type: Article

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