Crystallisation of RNA-protein complexes II. The application of protein engineering for crystallisation of the U1A protein-RNA complex

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 409-423

  Oubridge, Chris ^a   Ito, Nobutoshi ^a,c   Teo, C Hiang ^a,b   Fearnley, Ian ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystallisation; Mass spectrometry; Protein engineering; RNA purification; RNA protein complex

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME;

EID: 0029016333     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0306     Document Type: Article

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