Pseudouridines in spliceosomal snRNAs

Protein and Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 712-725

  Yu, Andrew T ^a   Ge, Junhui ^b   Yu, Yi Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

pseudouridine; small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs); small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs); spliceosome

Indexed keywords

BOX H ACA RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; BOX H ACA RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN PSEUDOURIDYLASE; BOX H ACA RNA; CELL ENZYME; CUP1 FUSION PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DYSKERIN; FLUOROURACIL; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN PUS7P; PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SPLICEOSOMAL SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRUB PSEUDOURIDYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACT1 CUP1 FUSION GENE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BASE PAIRING; BIOCATALYSIS; CELL STRESS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONSTITUTIVE SPLICEOSOMAL SMALL NUCLEAR RNA PSEUDOURIDYLATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; INDUCIBLE SPLICEOSOMAL SMALL NUCLEAR RNA PSEUDOURIDYLATION; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA DEPENDENT PSEUDOURIDYLATION; RNA INDEPENDENT PSEUDOURIDYLATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLICEOSOMAL SMALL NUCLEAR RNA PSEUDOURIDYLATION; SPLICEOSOME; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST CELL;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80955155441     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-011-1087-1     Document Type: Review

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