Analysis of synthetic lethality reveals genetic interactions between the GTPase Snu114p and snRNAs in the catalytic core of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spliceosome

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 497-515

  Frazer, Lily Novak ^a   Lovell, Simon C ^a   O'Keefe, Raymond T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATION; EXON; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHALITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GENES, LETHAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 70649102199     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.107243     Document Type: Article

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