Nuclear pre-mRNA compartmentalization: Trafficking of released transcripts to splicing factor reservoirs

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 497-510

  Melčák, Ivo ^a   Cermanová, Štěpánka ^a   Jirsová, Kateřina ^a   Koberna, Karel ^a   Malínský, Jan ^a   Raška, Ivan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SPLICING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0343593691     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.2.497     Document Type: Article

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