Recognition of the 5′ splice site by the spliceosome

Acta Biochimica Polonica

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 869-881

  Konarska, Maria M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA splicing; Small nuclear RNP; Splice site; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; PRPF8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

CARRIER PROTEINS; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0032249843     PISSN: 0001527X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18388/abp.1998_4346     Document Type: Review

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