Pseudouridine modification in Caenorhabditis elegans spliceosomal snRNAs: Unique modifications are found in regions involved in snRNA-snRNA interactions

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Patton, Jeffrey R ^a   Padgett, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; PSEUDOURIDINE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U1 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U2 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U4 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U5 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 27744603243     PISSN: 14712199     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-6-20     Document Type: Article

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