TRNA 3′ processing in yeast involves tRNase Z, Rex1, and Rrp6

RNA

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-130

  Skowronek, Ewa ^a   Grzechnik, Pawel ^a,c   Späth, Bettina ^b,d   Marchfelder, Anita ^b   Kufel, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Berufsbildungszentrum ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

3 end processing; Exonucleases; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; TRNA; TRNase Z

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE REX1; EXONUCLEASE RRP6; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRZ1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EXORIBONUCLEASE; EXOSOME MULTIENZYME RIBONUCLEASE COMPLEX; REX1 EXONUCLEASE, S CEREVISIAE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; RRP6 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRNASE Z, S CEREVISIAE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CHEMISTRY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; 3′-END PROCESSING; TRNASE Z;

CELL NUCLEUS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EXORIBONUCLEASES; EXOSOME MULTIENZYME RIBONUCLEASE COMPLEX; GENE SILENCING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

3′-END PROCESSING; EXONUCLEASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRNA; TRNASE Z;

EID: 84890588127     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.041467.113     Document Type: Article

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