Structural studies of the spliceosome: Zooming into the heart of the machine

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-66

  Galej, Wojciech P ^a   Nguyen, Thi Hoang Duong ^a   Newman, Andrew J ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HELICASE; MAGNESIUM ION; PROTEIN BRR2; PROTEIN PRP8; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HUMAN; INTRON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84893110707     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.12.002     Document Type: Review

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