Telomerase RNA biogenesis involves sequential binding by Sm and Lsm complexes

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7393, 2012, Pages 260-264

  Tang, Wen ^a,b,c   Kannan, Ram ^a,b,c   Blanchette, Marco ^b,c   Baumann, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN LIKE SM; PROTEIN SM; PROTEIN TER1; PROTEIN TGS1; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE TREATMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA; YEAST;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84859580726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10924     Document Type: Article

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