Reversible inhibition of the second step of splicing suggests a possible role of zinc in the second step of splicing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 4127-4137

  Shomron, Noam ^a   Malca, Hadar ^a   Vig, Ida ^a   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; DIVALENT CATION; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEIN; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; ZINC;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTRON; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSESTERIFICATION; YEAST;

EID: 0036796375     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf553     Document Type: Review

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