Conformational dynamics of single pre-mRNA molecules during in vitro splicing

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 504-512

  Abelson, John ^a   Blanco, Mario ^b   Ditzler, Mark A ^b,c   Fuller, Franklin ^b   Aravamudhan, Pavithra ^b   Wood, Mona ^b   Villa, Tommaso ^a,d   Ryan, Daniel E ^a,e   Pleiss, Jeffrey A ^a,f   Maeder, Corina ^a   Guthrie, Christine ^a   Walter, Nils G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77950516144     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1767     Document Type: Article

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