A mutational analysis of U12-dependent splice site dinucleotides

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1430-1440

  Dietrich, Rosemary C ^a   Fuller, John D ^a   Padgett, Richard A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Minor class introns; pre mRNA splicing; Spliceosomes

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 24044457307     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7206305     Document Type: Article

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