Prp43 is an essential RNA-dependent ATPase required for release of lariat-intron from the spliceosome.

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The essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae PRP43 gene encodes a 767-amino acid protein of the DEXH-box family. Prp43 has been implicated in spliceosome disassembly (Arenas, J. E., and Abelson, J. N. (1997) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 94, 11798-11802). Here we show that purified recombinant Prp43 is an RNA-dependent ATPase. Alanine mutations at conserved residues within motifs I ((119)GSGKT(123)), II...

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