Cryo-EM structure of the yeast U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP at 3.7 Å resolution

Nature

Volumn 530, Issue 7590, 2016, Pages 298-302

  Nguyen, Thi Hoang Duong ^a   Galej, Wojciech P ^a   Bai, Xiao Chen ^a   Oubridge, Chris ^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

ALANINE; DIB1 PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HISTIDINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; POLYPEPTIDE; PRP8 PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; (U4-U6.U5)TRI-SNRNP-SPECIFIC PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; DNA HELICASE; HCS1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRP8 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RNA SPLICE SITE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SNU114 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; U5 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

CATALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RESOLUTION; RNA; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DENSITY; EXON; FUNGUS GROWTH; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; RNA SPLICE SITE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE PAIRING; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA HELICASES; EXONS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84958967476     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16940     Document Type: Article

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