SMN-assisted assembly of snRNP-specific Sm cores in trypanosomes

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1650-1664

  Palfi, Zsofia ^a   Jaé, Nicolas ^a   Preußer, Christian ^a   Kaminska, Katarzyna H ^b,c   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^b,c   Ju, Huck Lee ^d   Günzl, Arthur ^d   Kambach, Christian ^e   Urlaub, Henning ^f   Bindereif, Albrecht ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

SMN; snRNA; snRNP; Splicing; Trypanosomes

Indexed keywords

GEMIN2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN SM; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHAPERONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PURIFICATION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TANDEM AFFINITY PURIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMN COMPLEX PROTEINS; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 67650638601     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.526109     Document Type: Article

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