An unusual chemical reactivity of Sm site adenosines strongly correlates with proper assembly of core U snRNP particles

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-147

  Hartmuth, Klaus ^a   Raker, Veronica A ^a   Huber, Jochen ^a   Branlant, Christiane ^b   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a Fachbereich Medizin der Universitat Marburg   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Adenosine N7 methylation; Nuclear import; Sm binding site; snRNA; U snRNP assembly

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METHYLATION; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033534531     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2300     Document Type: Article

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