Novel RNA-binding motif: The KH module

Biopolymers - Peptide Science Section

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-164

  Adinolfi, S ^a   Bagni, C ^b   Morelli, M A Castiglione ^c   Fraternali, F ^a   Musco, G ^a   Pastore, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fragile X; Modular proteins; RNA binding; Trinucleotide expansion

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; POLYPEPTIDES; RNA;

TRINUCLEOTIDE EXPANSION;

PROTEINS;

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0007302236     PISSN: 00063525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0282(1999)51:2<153::AID-BIP5>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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