Luc7p, a novel yeast U1 snRNP protein with a role in 5' splice site recognition

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2425-2438

  Fortes, Puri ^a   Bilbao Cortés, Daniel ^a   Fornerod, Maarten ^a   Rigaut, Guillaume ^a   Raymond, Wendy ^b   Séraphin, Bertrand ^a   Mattaj, Lain W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

5' splice site recognition; Alternative splicing; Cap binding complex; Pre mRNA processing; U1 snRNP

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA PROCESSING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA CAPS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033568197     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.18.2425     Document Type: Article

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