Novel processing in a mammalian nuclear 28S pre-rRNA: Tissue-specific elimination of an 'intron' bearing a hidden break site

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3107-3118

  Melen, Gustavo J ^a   Pesce, C Gustavo ^b   Rossi, María Susana ^a   Kornblihtt, Alberto R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammalian cells; Ribosomal RNA processing

Indexed keywords

RNA 28S; RNA PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HEART; INTRON; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RODENT; SPLEEN; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RODENTIA; TESTIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033153445     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.11.3107     Document Type: Article

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