Structure of the yeast U2/U6 snRNA complex

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 673-683

  Burke, Jordan E ^a   Sashital, Dipali G ^a,d   Zuo, Xiaobing ^b   Wang, Yun Xing ^c   Butcher, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR; RNA; SAXS; Spliceosome; U6 snRNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOCATALYSIS; INTRON; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

EID: 84863363427     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.031138.111     Document Type: Article

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