The eucaryal tRNA splicing endonuclease recognizes a tripartite set of RNA elements

Cell

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 859-866

  Negri, E Di Nicola ^a   Fabbri, S ^b   Bufardeci, E ^b   Baldi, M I ^a   Attardi, D Gandini ^a   Mattoccia, E ^a   Tocchini Valentini, G P ^a,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Istituto Guido Donegani SpA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0242395997     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80271-8     Document Type: Article

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