Functions and mechanisms of spliceosomal small nuclear RNA pseudouridylation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 571-581

  Wu, Guowei ^a   Yu, Andrew T ^a   Kantartzis, Athena ^a   Yu, Yi Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; FUNGAL RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOURIDYLATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOPUS; YEAST; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; RNA PROCESSING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OOCYTES; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES; XENOPUS;

EID: 80955171917     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.77     Document Type: Review

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