Functional significance of intermediate cleavages in the 3′ETS of the pre-rRNA from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7110-7116

  Ivakine, Evgueni ^b   Spasov, Krasimir ^b   Frendewey, David ^a   Nazar, Ross N ^b  

^a REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE S1; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0346888666     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg932     Document Type: Article

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