Homologs of small nucleolar RNAs in Archaea

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5465, 2000, Pages 517-522

  Omer, Arina D ^a   Lowe, Todd M ^b,c   Russell, Anthony C ^a   Ebhardt, Holger ^a   Eddy, Sean R ^b   Dennis, Patrick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METHYLATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 0034697257     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5465.517     Document Type: Article

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