An essential role for trimethylguanosine RNA caps in Saccharomyces cerevisiae meiosis and their requirement for splicing of SAE3 and PCH2 meiotic pre-mRNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5633-5646

  Qiu, Zhicheng R ^a   Shuman, Stewart ^a   Schwer, Beate ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,2,7 TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE; ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; HISTIDINE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PCH2 MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SAE3 MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE SYNTHASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ENDONUCLEASES; EXONS; GENE DELETION; GUANOSINE; INTRONS; MEIOSIS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 80051832804     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr083     Document Type: Article

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