Role of the box C/D motif in localization of small nucleolar RNAs to coiled bodies and nucleoli

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2131-2147

  Narayanan, Aarthi ^a   Speckmann, Wayne ^b   Terns, Rebecca ^a   Terns, Michael P ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EUKARYOTE; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIBOSOME; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032874290     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.7.2131     Document Type: Article

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