Flexibility in the site of exon junction complex deposition revealed by functional group and RNA secondary structure alterations in the splicing substrate

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2657-2670

  Mishler, Dennis M ^a   Christ, Alexander B ^a   Steitz, Joan A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eIF4AIII; EJC; NMD; Pre mRNA splicing; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE H;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EXON; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSE; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 57049145820     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1312808     Document Type: Article

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