The assembly of a spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6482-6493

  Patel, Snehal Bhikhu ^a   Bellini, Michel ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; PROTEIN SM; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; COILED BODY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA CAPS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 56649117675     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn658     Document Type: Article

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