Human Tra2 proteins are sequence-specific activators of pre-mRNA splicing

Cell

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 139-148

  Tacke, Roland ^a   Tohyama, Masaya ^b   Ogawa, Satoshi ^b   Manley, James L ^a  

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

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN TRA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION;

EID: 0032478506     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81153-8     Document Type: Article

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