Structure of a pre-catalytic spliceosome

Nature

Volumn 546, Issue 7660, 2017, Pages 617-621

  Plaschka, Clemens ^a   Lin, Pei Chun ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B COMPLEX PROTEIN PRP38; B COMPLEX PROTEIN SNU23; B COMPLEX PROTEIN SPP381; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BRR2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PRP38 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PRP8 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RNA HELICASE; RNA PRECURSOR; RNA SPLICING FACTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SNU23 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SPP381 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

CATALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA; YEAST;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA SPLICE SITE; RNA SPLICING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U5 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA HELICASES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA SPLICING FACTORS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 85021686355     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature22799     Document Type: Article

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