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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 15, 426 - 428 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0508-426

Modifications target spliceosome dynamics

Corina Maeder1 & Christine Guthrie1

  1. Corina Maeder and Christine Guthrie are in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Genentech Hall N374, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94143-2200, USA.
    e-mail: guthrie@biochem.ucsf.edu.


The splicing pathway is dominated by ATP-dependent RNA rearrangements promoted by DEAD-box helicases. Post-translational modifications have now been implicated in the regulation of two DEAD-box proteins that are required for catalytic activation of the spliceosome.

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