The protein Aly links pre-messenger-RNA splicing to nuclear export in metazoans

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6802, 2000, Pages 401-405

  Zhou, Zhaolan ^a   Luo, Ming Juan ^a   Straesser, Katja ^b   Katahira, Jun ^b   Hurt, Ed ^b   Reed, Robin ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; GEL FILTRATION; METAZOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; HELA CELLS; HUMAN; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034699472     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35030160     Document Type: Article

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