The DIVa Maturase Binding Site in the Yeast Group II Intron aI2 Is Essential for Intron Homing but Not for In Vivo Splicing

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 8809-8819

  Huang, Hon Ren ^a   Chao, Michael Y ^a   Armstrong, Barbara ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^b   Perlman, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P62; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0242637333     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.23.8809-8819.2003     Document Type: Article

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