Polycistronic expression and RNA-binding specificity of the C. elegans homologue of the spliceosome-associated protein SAP49

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 739-745

  Tanaka, Yoshimi ^a   Ohta, Atsunori ^a   Terashima, Kazuhiro ^a   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; In vitro selection; Polycistronic expression; RNA binding specificity; Spliceosome associated protein (SAP)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030967223     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021648     Document Type: Article

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