U2AF binding selects for the high conservation of the C. elegans 3′ splice site

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 248-253

  Hollins, Courtney ^a   Zorio, Diego A R ^a   MacMorris, Margaret ^a   Blumenthal, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linking; mRNA splicing; Nematode

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROSS LINKING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 13944280200     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7221605     Document Type: Article

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