The U2AF35-related protein Urp contacts the 3′ splice site to promote U12-type intron splicing and the second step of U2-type intron splicing

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2389-2394

  Shen, Haihong ^a   Zheng, Xuexiu ^a   Luecke, Stephan ^b   Green, Michael R ^b  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Spliceosome assembly; Splicing; U12 type intron; U2 type intron; U2AF35; Urp

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN U12; PROTEIN U2AF35; PROTEIN URP; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 78049446517     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1974810     Document Type: Article

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