Junction phosphate is derived from the precursor in the tRNA spliced by the archaeon Haloferax volcanii cell extract

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1019-1030

  Zofallova, Libuse ^a   Guo, Yuhong ^a   Gupta, Ramesh ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Cyclic phosphate; Halophiles; RNA fingerprinting; RNA ligase; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; LIGASE; PHOSPHATE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDONUCLEASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EXONS; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHATES; PLASMIDS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII;

EID: 0033913635     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200000613     Document Type: Article

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