Small nucleolar RNAs and RNAguided post-transcriptional modification

Essays in Biochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-77

  Lui, Lauren ^a   Lowe, Todd ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

2' O methylation; Post transcriptional modification; Pseudouridylation; Ribosome biogenesis; Small nucleolar RNA

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASES; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RIBOSOME; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84879144789     PISSN: 00711365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSE0540053     Document Type: Article

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