Interaction of the Sex-lethal RNA binding domains with RNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 1995, Pages 4530-4539

  Kanaar, Roland ^a,c   Lee, Andrew L ^a,b   Rudner, David Z ^a   Wemmer, David E ^a,b   Rio, Donald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Struct Biol Div Lawrence BL ^*  (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heteronuclear NMR; Polypyrimidine tract; Protein RNA interaction; Ribonucleoprotein; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA;

EID: 0029115921     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1995.tb00132.x     Document Type: Article

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