Connections between pre-mRNA processing and regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 25, Issue , 1999, Pages 59-82

  Geoffrey Burns, C ^a   Gould, Kathleen L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0033291085     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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