Assembly and glycerol gradient isolation of yeast spliceosomes containing transcribed or synthetic U6 snRNA

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 488, Issue , 2008, Pages 41-63

  Dery, Kenneth J ^a   Yean, Shyue Lee ^a   Lin, Ren Jang ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycerol gradient sedimentation; pre mRNA splicing; RNA ligation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; SP6 transcription; spliceosome; Splicing extracts; T7 transcription; U6 reconstitution

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84934443096     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-475-3_4     Document Type: Article

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