A role for U2/U6 helix Ib in 5' splice site selection

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 915-927

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

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA processing; RNA catalysis; Splice site selection; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0344474519     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980591     Document Type: Article

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