Identification and characterization of a novel kind of nuclear protein occurring free in the nucleoplasm and in ribonucleoprotein structures of the 'speckle' type

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-308

  Brandner, Johanna M ^b   Reidenbach, Sonja ^a   Kuhn, Caecilia ^a   Franke, Werner W ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Speckles'; DRS protein; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; HYDROXYAMINO ACID; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; IMMUNOASSAY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031966818     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0171-9335(98)80063-0     Document Type: Article

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