Structure and thermodynamics of a conserved U2 snRNA domain from yeast and human

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 328-338

  Sashital, Dipali G ^a   Venditti, Vincenzo ^b   Angers, Cortney G ^a,c   Cornilescu, Gabriel ^a   Butcher, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR; RNA structure; Spliceosome; U2 snRNA

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; URACIL;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33847332102     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.418407     Document Type: Article

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