Sm core variation in spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoproteins from Trypanosoma brucei

EMBO Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4513-4523

  Wang, Pingping ^a   Palfi, Zsofia ^a   Preusser, Christian ^a   Lücke, Stephan ^a,d   Lane, William S ^b   Kambach, Christian ^c   Bindereif, Albrecht ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Small nuclear RNA; snRNA; snRNP; Splicing; Trypanosomes

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RNA; PROTEIN SM; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33749324465     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601328     Document Type: Article

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