Splicing of a rare class of introns by the U12-dependent spliceosome

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 386, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 713-724

  Will, Cindy L ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA splicing; U11 U12 snRNP; U12 dependent spliceosome

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 26844431946     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14316730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2005.084     Document Type: Review

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