CryoEM structures of two spliceosomal complexes: Starter and dessert at the spliceosome feast

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 48-57

  Nguyen, Thi Hoang Duong ^a   Galej, Wojciech P ^a   Fica, Sebastian M ^a   Lin, Pei Chun ^a   Newman, Andrew J ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ELONGATION FACTOR 2; RECA PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MACROMOLECULE; PROTEIN BINDING; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U4 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U5 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPLICEOSOME; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84954550544     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.12.005     Document Type: Review

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