Organization of Core Spliceosomal Components U5 snRNA Loop I and U4/U6 Di-snRNP within U4/U6.U5 Tri-snRNP as Revealed by Electron Cryomicroscopy

Molecular Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 267-278

  Sander, Bjoern ^a   Golas, Monika M ^a   Makarov, Evgeny M ^a,b   Brahms, Hero ^a   Kastner, Berthold ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a   Stark, Holger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Department of Cellular Biochemistry ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

RNA

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTE; EXON; HUMAN; INTRON; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; VITRIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749672830     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.08.021     Document Type: Article

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