RNA structure analysis of human spliceosomes reveals a compact 3D arrangement of snRNAs at the catalytic core

EMBO Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2804-2818

  Anokhina, Maria ^a   Bessonov, Sergey ^a   Miao, Zhichao ^b   Westhof, Eric ^b   Hartmuth, Klaus ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

3 way junction; RNA modelling; RNA structure; spliceosome; U2 U6 duplex

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOTIDE; PSORALEN; RIBONUCLEASE H; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXON; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME;

CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FICUSIN; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84887115772     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2013.198     Document Type: Article

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