Identification of novel snRNA-specific Sm proteins that bind selectively to U2 and U4 snRNAs in Trypanosoma brucei

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-43

  Tkacz, Itai Dov ^a   Lustig, Yaniv ^a   Stern, Michael Zeev ^a   Biton, Moshe ^a   Salmon Divon, Mali ^a   Das, Anish ^b   Bellofatto, Vivian ^b   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lsm; SL RNA; Sm proteins; snRNA; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SM; PROTEIN SMB; PROTEIN SMD1; PROTEIN SMD2; PROTEIN SMD3; PROTEIN SMF; PROTEIN SMG; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33845906382     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.174307     Document Type: Article

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