Characterization of Sm-like proteins in yeast and their association with U6 snRNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 4321-4331

  Mayes, Andrew E ^a   Verdone, Loredana ^a   Legrain, Pierre ^b   Beggs, Jean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Lsm; Sm proteins; snRNP; Splicing; U6 snRNP

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033517098     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.15.4321     Document Type: Article

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