Two structurally different RNA molecules are bound by the spliceosomal protein U1A using the same recognition strategy

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 621-631

  Jovine, Luca ^a   Oubridge, Chris ^a   Avis, Johanna M ^a,b   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 untranslated region; Molecular modelling; Polyadenylation; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA protein recognition; U1A spliceosomal protein

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U1A PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0030585191     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00066-4     Document Type: Article

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