Evidence for a group II intron-like catalytic triplex in the spliceosome

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 464-471

  Fica, Sebastian M ^a   Mefford, Melissa A ^a,b   Piccirilli, Joseph A ^a   Staley, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; EXON; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRON; LIGATION; METAL BINDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRIPLE HELIX; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84901929739     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2815     Document Type: Article

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