Biology 105
Eukaryotic Cell Biology

November 28, 2006 RNA Processing

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Required Reading:

Textbook: Alberts et al (2002) Molecular Biology of the Cell pp. 315-334

Smith and Steitz (1997) Sno storm in the nucleolus: New roles for myriad small RNPs. Cell 89: 669-672.

Borovjagin and Gerbi (2001) Xenopus U3 snoRNA GAC-Box A’ and Box A sequences play distinct functional roles in rRNA processing. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21: 6210-6221.

F. Bleichert, S. Granneman, Y.N. Osheim, A.L. Beyer and S.J. Baserga (2006) The PINc domain protein Utp24, a putative nuclease, is required for the early cleavage steps in 18S rRNA maturation. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 103: 9464-9469.