Genetic interaction between U6 snRNA and the first intron nucleotide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-180

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

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA processing; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Splice site selection; Splicing catalysis

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOTIDE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INTRONS; MUTATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0344878878     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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