A dynamic bulge in the U6 RNA internal stem-loop functions in spliceosome assembly and activation

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2252-2265

  Mcmanus, C Joel ^a   Schwartz, Matthew L ^a,c   Butcher, Samuel E ^b   Brow, David A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

pre mRNA splicing; Prp24; Spliceosome activation; U4 U6; U6 RNA

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; TEMPERATURE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 36248983726     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.699907     Document Type: Article

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