Genetic analysis reveals a role for the C terminus of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GTPase Snu114 during spliceosome activation

Genetics

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1063-1080

  Brenner, Tamara J ^a   Guthrie, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Genentech Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRR1 GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PRP8 GENE; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SAD1 GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SNU114 GENE; SPLICEOSOME; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 23344449230     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.042044     Document Type: Article

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