The significant other: Splicing by the minor spliceosome

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-76

  Turunen, Janne J ^a,b   Niemelä, Elina H ^a   Verma, Bhupendra ^a   Frilander, Mikko J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

CATALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SPLICESOME;

GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRONS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84871429958     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1141     Document Type: Review

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