The spinal muscular atrophy disease gene product, SMN: A link between snRNP biogenesis and the Cajal (coiled) body

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 715-727

  Carvalho, Teresa ^a   Almeida, Fátima ^a   Calapez, Alexandre ^a   Lafarga, Miguel ^b   Berciano, Maria T ^b   Carmo Fonseca, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cajal (coiled) body; Leptomycin B; Nucleocytoplasmic transport; SMN protein; Spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoproteins

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LEPTOMYCIN B; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPLICEOSOME; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL LINE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; ORGANELLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033571601     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.4.715     Document Type: Article

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