The use of simple model systems to study spliceosomal catalysis

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-7

  Valadkhan, Saba ^a   Manley, James L ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Minimal splicing systems; Ribozyme; snRNA; U2; U6

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID; DIVALENT CATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; GENETIC MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

CATALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 58149099850     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1425809     Document Type: Review

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