Allosteric cascade of spliceosome activation

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 333-360

  Brow, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Intron; pre mRNA; RNA; snRNP; Splicing

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; CATALYSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0036948420     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.043002.091635     Document Type: Review

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