U6 RNA biogenesis and disease association

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 581-592

  Mroczek, Seweryn ^a,b   Dziembowski, Andrzej ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; METAL ION; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOGENESIS; COILED BODY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRON; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; POIKILODERMA; POINT MUTATION; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; RHODOSPORIDIUM; RHODOTORULA; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SKIN DISEASE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPLICEOSOME; TATA BOX; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NEUTROPENIA; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SKIN ABNORMALITIES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84882239378     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1181     Document Type: Review

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