RNA-modifying machines in archaea

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 617-629

  Omer, Arina D ^a   Ziesche, Sonia ^a   Decatur, Wayne A ^b   Fournier, Maurille J ^b   Dennis, Patrick P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; DNA PACKAGING; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037673518     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03483.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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