Base pairing with U6atac snRNA is required for 5' splice site activation of U12-dependent introns in vivo

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 709-718

  Incorvaia, Robert ^a   Padgett, Richard A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Base pairing; Genetic suppression; snRNP; Splicing

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; INTRON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING;

BASE SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031745936     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980207     Document Type: Article

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