Two reactions of Haloferax volcanii RNA splicing enzymes: Joining of exons and circularization of introns

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-330

  Salgia, Shilpa R ^a   Singh, Sanjay K ^a   Gurha, Priyatansh ^a   Gupta, Ramesh ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bulge helix bulge structure; C D box small RNA; Circular RNA; Cyclic phosphate; RNA ligase; rRNA processing; Splicing endonuclease

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; ENZYME; ESTER DERIVATIVE; LIGASE; PHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EURYARCHAEOTA; EXON; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

EXONS; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; INTRONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA LIGASE (ATP); RNA SPLICING;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOFERAX; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037371409     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2118203     Document Type: Article

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