RNA catalyses nuclear pre-mRNA splicing

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7475, 2013, Pages 229-234

  Fica, Sebastian M ^a   Tuttle, Nicole ^a   Novak, Thaddeus ^a   Li, Nan Sheng ^a   Lu, Jun ^a   Koodathingal, Prakash ^a   Dai, Qing ^a   Staley, Jonathan P ^a   Piccirilli, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PROTEIN; RNA; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXON; INTRON; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

CATALYSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; INTRONS; METALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84887624226     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12734     Document Type: Article

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