The spliceosome: a self-organized macromolecular machine in the nucleus?

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 375-384

  Rino, José ^a   Carmo Fonseca, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COILED BODY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EXCISION REPAIR; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 68549111145     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2009.05.004     Document Type: Review

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