The transition in spliceosome assembly from complex e to complex A purges surplus U1 snRNPs from alternative splice sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6850-6862

  Hodson, Mark J ^a   Hudson, Andrew J ^b   Cherny, Dmitry ^a   Eperon, Ian C ^a  

^a Department of Biochemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN U1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SPLICEOSOME; STOICHIOMETRY;

HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84864940859     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks322     Document Type: Article

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