Automated electron tomography of large nuclear RNP (lnRNP) particles - The naturally assembled complexes of precursor messenger RNA and splicing factors

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 228-236

  Medalia, Ohad ^a   Koster, Abraham J ^b   Tocilij, Ante ^a   Angenitzki, Mina ^c   Sperling, Joseph ^a   Berkovitch Yellin, Ziva ^a   Sperling, Ruth ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Electron tomography; lnRNP particles; Model; Pre mRNA splicing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031413405     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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