Combined biochemical and electron microscopic analyses reveal the architecture of the mammalian U2 snRNP

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1355-1368

  Krämer, Angela ^a   Grüter, Patric ^a,c   Gröning, Karsten ^a,c   Kastner, Berthold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Pre mRNA splicing; Spliceosome; Splicing factor; U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANION EXCHANGE RESINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033612569     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.145.7.1355     Document Type: Article

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