The spliceosome as ribozyme hypothesis takes a second step

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

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12211-12212

  Butcher, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPOTHESIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 68149147548     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906762106     Document Type: Note

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