The spliceosome: The most complex macromolecular machine in the cell?

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1147-1149

  Nilsen, Timothy W ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; MACROMOLECULE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOMICS; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0344198459     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10394     Document Type: Review

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