A supraspliceosome model for large nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles based on mass determinations by scanning transmission electron microscopy

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 383-394

  Müller, Shirley ^a   Wolpensinger, Bettina ^a   Angenitzki, Mina ^b   Engel, Andreas ^a   Sperling, Joseph ^c   Sperling, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Mass determination; Pre mRNA splicing; Spliceosomes; STEM

Indexed keywords

FORMIC ACID; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032561135     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2078     Document Type: Article

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