The structure of an essential splicing element: Stem loop IIa from yeast U2 snRNA

Structure

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1173-1185

  Stallings, Sarah C ^a   Moore, Peter B ^a,b  

^a Dept Molec Biophys and Biochem ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA structure; Torsion angle; U turn; U2 snRNA

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031572279     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(97)00268-2     Document Type: Article

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