Pyrimidine tracts between the 5' splice site and branch point facilitate splicing and recognition of a small Drosophila intron

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2774-2780

  Kennedy, Catharine F ^a   Berget, Susan M ^a,b  

^a Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030899120     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.5.2774     Document Type: Article

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