A novel family of plant splicing factors with a Zn knuckle motif: Examination of RNA binding and splicing activities

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 761-773

  Lopato, Sergiy ^a   Gattoni, Renata ^b   Fabini, Gustav ^a   Stevenin, James ^b   Barta, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Arg Ser rich domain; Phosphorylation; RGG rich region; RNA processing; RNA recognition motif (RRM); S100 splicing extract; SR proteins

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SIZE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZINC FINGERS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033103642     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006129615846     Document Type: Article

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