The architecture of the spliceosomal U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP

Nature

Volumn 523, Issue 7558, 2015, Pages 47-52

  Nguyen, Thi Hoang Duong ^a   Galej, Wojciech P ^a   Bai, Xiao Chen ^a   Savva, Christos G ^a   Newman, Andrew J ^a   Scheres, Sjors H W ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; BRR2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRP8 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RNA HELICASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SNU114 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RECONSTRUCTION; RNA; YEAST;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BINDING SITES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA HELICASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84938513943     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14548     Document Type: Article

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