Essential structural features in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Pre-rRNA 5' external transcribed spacer

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 695-708

  Intine, Robert V A ^a   Good, Liam ^a   Nazar, Ross N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

5' external transcribed spacer; Nucleolus; Ribosome; RNA processing; rRNA

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; NUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; RNA 5.8S; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA GENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033605217     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2502     Document Type: Article

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