The branchpoint residue is recognized during commitment complex formation before being bulged out of the U2 snRNA-pre-mRNA duplex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 3469-3476

  Pascolo, Emanuelle ^a   Séraphin, Bertrand ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; DELETION MUTANT; DNA HELIX; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA CONFORMATION; SPLICEOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1842326159     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.7.3469     Document Type: Article

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