The spliceosome: A flexible, reversible macromolecular machine

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 179-188

  Hoskins, Aaron A ^a   Moore, Melissa J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

CELL KINETICS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACHINE; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84860513145     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2012.02.009     Document Type: Review

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