3D Cryo-EM Structure of an Active Step I Spliceosome and Localization of Its Catalytic Core

Molecular Cell

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 927-938

  Golas, Monika M ^a,b   Sander, Bjoern ^a,b   Bessonov, Sergey ^a   Grote, Michael ^a   Wolf, Elmar ^a   Kastner, Berthold ^a   Stark, Holger ^a,c   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 78649650270     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.11.023     Document Type: Article

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