Functional interactions between the zinc fingers of Xenopus transcription factor IIIA during 5S rRNA binding

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1254-1269

  Setzer, David R ^a   Menezes, Sandra R ^a   Del Rio, Samuel ^a   Hung, Virginia S ^a   Subramanyan, Girish ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

7S RNP; ribonucleoprotein; ribosomal RNA; RNA protein interaction; TFIIIA

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HALF-LIFE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0029908877     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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