Conservation of functional features of U6atac and U12 snRNAs between vertebrates and higher plants

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 525-538

  Shukla, Girish C ^a   Padgett, Richard A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; pre mRNA splicing; Spliceosomes; U12 dependent introns

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; EVOLUTION; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLICEOSOMES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032943029     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299982213     Document Type: Article

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