Splicing of a divergent subclass of AT-AC introns requires the major spliceosomal snRNAs

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 586-601

  Qiang, W U ^b   Krainer, Adrian R ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

divergent AT AC introns; in vitro splicing; pre mRNA splicing; skeletal and cardiac muscle sodium channel

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPLICEOSOMES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; XYLAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-XYLOSIDASE; XYLOSIDASES;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 12644306849     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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