Yeast Sm-like proteins function in mRNA decapping and decay

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6777, 2000, Pages 515-518

  Tharun, Sundaresan ^a   He, Welhal ^a   Mayes, Andrew E ^b,c   Lennertz, Pascal ^a   Beggs, Jean D ^b   Parker, Roy ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM;

AUTOANTIGENS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA CAPS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

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EID: 0034732089     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35006676     Document Type: Article

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