In silico screening of archaeal tRNA-encoding genes having multiple introns with bulge-helix-bulge splicing motifs

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 671-681

  Sugahara, Junichi ^a   Yachie, Nozomu ^a   Arakawa, Kazuharu ^a,b   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bioinformatics; Bulge helix bulge (BHB) splicing motif; Intron containing tRNA; SPLITS; tRNAscan SE

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC SCREENING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSPORT; THERMOFILUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

ARCHAEA; THERMOFILUM PENDENS; UNCULTURED METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON;

EID: 34247357415     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.309507     Document Type: Article

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