FLASH is required for the endonucleolytic cleavage of histone pre-mRNAs but is dispensable for the 5′ exonucleolytic degradation of the downstream cleavage product

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1492-1502

  Yang, Xiao Cui ^a   Xu, Bing ^a   Sabath, Ivan ^a   Kunduru, Lalitha ^a   Burch, Brandon D ^a   Marzluff, William F ^a   Dominski, Zbigniew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION SPECIFICITY FACTOR; ENDONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; FLASH PROTEIN; HISTONE; LSM11 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDONUCLEASES; EXONUCLEASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U7 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 79953771482     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00979-10     Document Type: Article

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