Structure of a spliceosome remodelled for exon ligation

Nature

Volumn 542, Issue 7641, 2017, Pages 377-380

  Fica, Sebastian M ^a   Oubridge, Chris ^a   Galej, Wojciech P ^a,b   Wilkinson, Max E ^a   Bai, Xiao Chen ^a   Newman, Andrew J ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PRP8 PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CDC40 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; CEF1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PRP16 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRP18 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRP22 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRP8 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; RNA SPLICE SITE; RNA SPLICING FACTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SLU7 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

CATALYST; CHEMICAL BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PROTEIN; RNA; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICE SITE; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAINS; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA HELICASES; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA SPLICING FACTORS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 85016141734     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature21078     Document Type: Article

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