In vitro reconstitution of yeast splicing with U4 snRNA reveals multiple roles for the 3′ stem-loop

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1075-1090

  Hayduk, Amy J ^a   Stark, Martha R ^a   Rader, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Di snRNP formation; In vitro reconstitution; Pre mRNA splicing; Protein RNA interaction; Spliceosome activation; Splicing complementation; U4 snRNA

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES; YEASTS;

EID: 84859952475     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.031757.111     Document Type: Article

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