Ribonucleoprotein multimers and their functions

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 331-350

  Bleichert, Franziska ^a   Baserga, Susan J ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

box C D snoRNP; box C D sRNP; multimerization; Ribonucleoprotein; telomerase; U11 U12 di snRNP; U4 U6 di snRNP; U4 U6.U5 tri snRNP

Indexed keywords

DIMER; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MONOMER; POLYMER; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

CATALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERASE;

EID: 77956755947     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2010.496772     Document Type: Review

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