Processing of vertebrate box C/D small nucleolar RNAs in plant cells

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 154-160

  Leader, David J ^a   Clark, Gillian P ^a   Boag, Jillian ^a   Watters, Jennifer A ^a   Simpson, Craig G ^a   Watkins, Nicholas J ^a   Maxwell, E Stuart ^b   Brown, John W S ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

box C D small nucleolar RNA; Small nucleolar RNA; Small nucleolar RNA processing; U14

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE TRANSFER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032054065     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2530154.x     Document Type: Article

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