Role of small nuclear RNAs in eukaryotic gene expression

Essays in Biochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-90

  Valadkhan, Saba ^a   Gunawardane, Lalith S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group II intron; Ribozyme; Small nuclear RNA; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84879169918     PISSN: 00711365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSE0540079     Document Type: Article

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