Probing of the spliceosome with site-specifically derivatized 5' splice site RNA oligonucleotides

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1069-1082

  Sha, Ma ^a   Levy, Tao ^a,b   Kois, Pavol ^a   Konarska, Maria M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

5' splice site; Pre mRNA splicing; snRNP; Spliceosome; UV crosslinking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; ANIMALS; AZIDES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HUMANS; INTRONS; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0031714536     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980682     Document Type: Article

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