Relationship between 3′ end formation and SL2-specific trans-splicing in polycistronic Caenorhabditis elegans pre-mRNA processing

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-278

  Kuersten, Scott ^a   Lea, Kristi ^a   MacMorris, Margaret ^a   Spieth, John ^a,c   Blumenthal, Thomas ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nematode; Operons; Polyadenylation; Spliced leader; Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CISTRON; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; POLY A; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030933870     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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