Where in the cell is the minor spliceosome?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 8485-8486

  Steitz, Joan A ^a   Dreyfuss, Gideon ^b   Krainer, Adrian R ^c   Lamond, Angus I ^d   Matera, A Gregory ^e   Padgett, Richard A ^f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 47249101070     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804024105     Document Type: Note

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