A role for SRp54 during intron bridging of small introns with pyrimidine tracts upstream of the branch point

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 5425-5434

  Kennedy, Catharine F ^a   Krämer, Angela ^b   Berget, Susan M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031842450     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.9.5425     Document Type: Article

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