Protein arginine methylation facilitates cotranscriptional recruitment of pre-mRNA splicing factors

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5245-5256

  Chen, Yin Chu ^a   Milliman, Eric J ^a   Goulet, Isabelle ^b   Côté, Jocelyn ^b   Jackson, Christopher A ^a   Vollbracht, Jennifer A ^a   Yu, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HMT 1; PROTEIN SNP 1; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL RNA; HMT1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SNP1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; INTRON; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARGININE; BINDING SITES; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; METHYLATION; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 77957856880     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00359-10     Document Type: Article

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