The role of the 3' external transcribed spacer in yeast Pre-rRNA processing

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-78

  Allmang, Christine ^a   Tollervey, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nucleolar; Ribosomes; RNase MRP; rRNA; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032562647     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1693     Document Type: Article

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