Pseudouridine mapping in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spliceosomal U small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) reveals that pseudouridine synthase Pus1p exhibits a dual substrate specificity for U2 snRNA and tRNA

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2142-2154

  Massenet, Séverine ^a   Motorin, Yuri ^b   Lafontaine, Denis L J ^c   Hurt, Eduard C ^d   Grosjean, Henri ^b   Branlant, Christiane ^a  

^a Biopôle de l Université de Lorraine   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOURIDINE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033046012     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.3.2142     Document Type: Article

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