Ribosome assembly factors Pwp1 and Nop12 are important for folding of 5.8S rRNA during ribosome biogenesis in saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1863-1877

  Talkish, Jason ^a   Campbell, Ian Winsten ^b   Sahasranaman, Aarti ^a   Jakovljevic, Jelena ^a   Woolford, John L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NOP12; PROTEIN PWP1; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CYTOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RIBOSOME; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CYTOPLASM; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, LARGE, EUKARYOTIC; RNA FOLDING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84899149495     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01322-13     Document Type: Article

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