Functional group substitutions of the branchpoint adenosine in a nuclear pre-mRNA and a group II intron

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 861-869

  Gaur, Rajesh K ^a   McLaughlin, Larry W ^b   Green, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Branchpoint mapping; Group II intron splicing; Modified nucleotides; Pre mRNA splicing; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ADENOSINE; BASE SEQUENCE; GUANOSINE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NUCLEAR; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030861002     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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