Small nucleolar RNAs

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 22-31

  Eliceiri, G L ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

2' O ribose methylation; Intron encoded RNAs; Pseudouridine formation; Ribosomal rna precursor cleavage; Small nucleolar RNAs

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBOSE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CELL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SPLICEOSOME; VERTEBRATE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRONS; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBOSE; RNA; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; YEASTS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033215167     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050003     Document Type: Review

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