Both subunits of U2AF recognize the 3' splice site in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6763, 1999, Pages 835-838

  Zorio, Diego A R ^a,b   Blumenthal, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE; SPLICING FACTOR U2AF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; INTRONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; RNA SPLICING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033576591     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45597     Document Type: Article

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