Unusual features of fibrillarin cDNA and gene structure in Euglena gracilis: Evolutionary conservation of core proteins and structural predictions for methylation-guide box C/D snoRNPs throughout the domain Eucarya

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2781-2791

  Russell, Anthony G ^a   Watanabe, Yoh Ichi ^a,b   Charette, J Michael ^a   Gray, Michael W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORE PROTEIN; FIBRILLARIN; GLYCINE; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U4 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE COMPONENTS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 19144372443     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki574     Document Type: Article

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