Spliceosomal U snRNP core assembly: Sm proteins assemble onto an Sm site RNA nonanucleotide in a specific and thermodynamically stable manner

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 6554-6565

  Raker, Veronica A ^a   Hartmuth, Klaus ^a   Kastner, Berthold ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032862988     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.10.6554     Document Type: Article

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