Cryo-electron microscopy of spliceosomal components

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 435-457

  Stark, Holger ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image processing; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA; Single particle analysis; snRNP; Splicing machinery

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

CATALYSIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 33745050151     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.040405.101953     Document Type: Review

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