Historical review: The discovery of 'giant' RNA and RNA processing: 40 Years of enigma

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 566-571

  Scherrer, Klaus ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENETICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 0642285623     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2003.08.004     Document Type: Review

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