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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 15, 1235 - 1237 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nsmb1208-1235
Is the spliceosome a ribonucleoprotein enzyme?
John Abelson1
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John Abelson is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, the University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94114.
e-mail: johnabelson@gmail.com
Abstract
New work suggests that Prp8, a highly conserved protein in the heart of the spliceosome, both orients the substrate and participates in catalysis.
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