A role for ubiquitin in the spliceosome assembly pathway

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 444-451

  Bellare, Priya ^a   Small, Eliza C ^b   Huang, Xinhua ^c   Wohlschlegel, James A ^c   Staley, Jonathan P ^b   Sontheimer, Erik J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN PRP8; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBISTATIN A;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; UBIQUITINATION;

MUTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; QUINOLINES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; SULFANILIC ACIDS; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 43249118936     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1401     Document Type: Article

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