Processing of the intron-encoded U18 small nucleolar RNA in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae relies on both exo- and endonucleolytic activities

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3376-3383

  Villa, Tommaso ^a   Ceradini, Francesca ^a   Presutti, Carlo ^a   Bozzoni, Irene ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; ENDONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031814309     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.6.3376     Document Type: Article

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