Protein-free small nuclear RNAs catalyze a two-step splicing reaction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 11901-11906

  Valadkhan, Saba ^a   Mohammadi, Afshin ^a   Jaladat, Yasaman ^a   Geisler, Sarah ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Ribozymes; snRNAs; Spliceosome; U6

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOZYME; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; ESTERIFICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 67749098066     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902020106     Document Type: Article

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