Identification of specific nucleotide sequences and structural elements required for intronic U14 snoRNA processing

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-26

  Xia, Ling ^a   Watkins, Nicholas J ^a   Maxwell, E Stuart ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

boxes C and D; intron encoded snoRNA; ribosomal RNA processing; small nucleolar RNAs; terminal core motif

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FUNGI; INTRONS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031031451     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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