The yeast U2A'/U2B' complex is required for pre-spliceosome formation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 6348-6358

  Caspary, Friederike ^a   Séraphin, Bertrand ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commitment complexes; LEA1; Pre mRNA splicing; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; U2 snRNP

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL DIVISION; DATABASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032476603     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.21.6348     Document Type: Article

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