Yeast Rnt1p is required for cleavage of the pre-ribosomal RNA in the 3' ETS but not the 5' ETS

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 909-917

  Kufel, Joanna ^b   Dichtl, Bernhard ^a,b   Tollervey, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endonuclease; RNA processing; RNase III; Yeast

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

EID: 0033031442     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135583829999026X     Document Type: Article

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