Base pairing between U3 small nucleolar RNA and the 5' end of 18S rRNA is required for pre-rRNA processing

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 6012-6019

  Sharma, Kishor ^a   Tollervey, David ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032771416     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.9.6012     Document Type: Article

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