Nature Structural Biology
8, 11 - 13 (2001)
doi:10.1038/82979
The spliceosome shows its metalErik J. Sontheimer
Erik J. Sontheimer is in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, 2153 North Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois, 60208-3500, USA. erik@northwestern.edu
A conserved region of U6 small nuclear RNA has been implicated in binding an essential metal ion. Is this a glimpse of the spliceosome's catalytic core?
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