Functional conservation and cell cycle localization of the Nhp2 core component of H+ACA snoRNPs in fission and budding yeasts

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 165-174

  Maiorano, Domenico ^a   Brimage, Lydia J E ^a   Leroy, Dorothée ^a   Kearsey, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; GFP; nhp2; Nucleolus; rRNA processing; snoRNP

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033544021     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4607     Document Type: Article

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