The Spliceosome: Design Principles of a Dynamic RNP Machine

Cell

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 701-718

  Wahl, Markus C ^a,b   Will, Cindy L ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TELOMERASE;

ACCURACY; BASE PAIRING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPECTROSCOPY; SPLICEOSOME; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 60349104299     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.02.009     Document Type: Review

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