Exon, intron and splice site locations in the spliceosomal B complex

EMBO Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2283-2292

  Wolf, Elmar ^a   Kastner, Berthold ^a   Deckert, Jochen ^a,b   Merz, Christian ^a,c   Stark, Holger ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Roche Kulmbach GmbH   (Germany)

^c APOGENIX GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Localisation; Pre mRNA; SF3b155; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BINDING PROTEIN; COLLOIDAL GOLD; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; U2 ASSOCIATED PROTEIN SF3B155; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; SPLICEOSOME B COMPLEX;

EXONS; GOLD; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; SPLICEOSOMES; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 68249149579     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.171     Document Type: Article

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