A UV-crosslinkable interaction in human U6 snRNAa

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 489-497

  Sun, Jing Song ^a   Valadkhan, Saba ^a   Manley, James L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA splicing; SnRNA structure; Tertiary interaction

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA CROSS LINKING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0031968782     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980141     Document Type: Article

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