A role for Cajal bodies in the final steps of U2 snRNP biogenesis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4423-4433

  Nesic, Dobrila ^a,b   Tanackovic, Goranka ^a   Krämer, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cajal body; Localization; SF3a; snRNP biogenesis; Splicing factor

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COILED BODY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA SPLICING; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS; COILED BODIES; CYTOPLASM; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 5444231229     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01308     Document Type: Article

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