Ultrastructural analysis of transcription and splicing in the cell nucleus after bromo-UTP microinjection

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 211-223

  Cmarko, Dusan ^a   Verschure, Pernette J ^b   Martin, Terence E ^c   Dahmus, Michael E ^d   Krause, Sabine ^e   Fu, Xiang Dong ^f   Van Driel, Roel ^b   Fakan, Stanislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032917782     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.1.211     Document Type: Article

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