Essential role for the tudor domain of SMN in spliceosomal U snRNP assembly: Implications for spinal muscular atrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2351-2357

  Bühler, Dirk ^a   Raker, Veronica ^b   Lührmann, Reinhard ^b   Fischer, Utz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SYNAPSIN I; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTONEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 0242683460     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.13.2351     Document Type: Article

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