Pac1p, an RNAse III homolog, is required for formation of the 3' end of U2 snRNA in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1083-1098

  Zhou, Dewang ^a   Frendewey, David ^b   Lobo Ruppert, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Pac1p; RNA processing; RNase III

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032857606     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299990726     Document Type: Article

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