Construction of an in vivo-regulated U6 snRNA transcription unit as a tool to study U6 function

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-238

  Luukkonen, B G Mattias ^a,b   Séraphin, Bertrand ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA splicing; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; SnRNA transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0344447091     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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