Mutations within the yeast U4/U6 snRNP protein Prp4 affect a late stage of spliceosome assembly

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-209

  Ayadi, Lilia ^a   Miller, Marianne ^b   Banroques, Josette ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

G subunit; Prp4; S. cerevisiae; snRNP protein; splicing

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLICEOSOME; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0031016867     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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