Processing of multiple-intron-containing pretRNA

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

Volumn 106, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 20246-20251

  Tocchini Valentini, Giuseppe D ^a   Fruscoloni, Paolo ^a   Tocchini Valentini, Glauco P ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multiple intron pretRNA; RNA protein interactions; tRNA splicing

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ENDORIBONUCLEASES; INTRONS; METHANOCOCCALES; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, TRANSFER; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

CRENARCHAEOTA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 73949114540     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911658106     Document Type: Article

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