Structural features in the 3' external transcribed spacer affecting intragenic processing of yeast rRNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 274, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 481-490

  Hitchen, John ^a   Ivakine, Evgueni ^a   Melekhovets, Yuri F ^a   Lalev, Atanas ^a   Nazar, Ross N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nucleolus; Ribosome maturation; RNA processing; rRNA

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 5.8S; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031565926     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1376     Document Type: Article

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