Evolutionary fates and origins of U12-type introns

Molecular Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 773-785

  Burge, Christopher B ^a   Padgett, Richard A ^b   Sharp, Phillip A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; U11/U12 SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0032247416     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80292-0     Document Type: Article

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