Variants of U1 small nuclear RNA assemble into spliceosomal complexes

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-194

  Pereira Simon, S ^a,b   Sierra Montes, J M ^a   Ayesh, K ^a   Martinez, L ^a   Socorro, A ^a   Herrera, R J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Free energy values; Phylogenetic analyses; RNA secondary structure; Spliceosomal assembly; U1 snRNA variants

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U1 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILKWORM; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; INDIA; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLICEOSOMES;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 1942536508     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0962-1075.2004.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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