Splice site requirements and switches in plants

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 326, Issue , 2008, Pages 39-59

  Schuler, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CATALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; EXON; INTRON; MUTANT; MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EXONS; INTRONS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 51149117840     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76776-3_3     Document Type: Review

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