Identification of a minimal Alu RNA folding domain that specifically binds SRP9/14

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1262-1274

  Weichenrieder, Oliver ^a,b   Kapp, Ulrike ^a   Cusack, Stephen ^a   Strub, Katharina ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular permutation; Equilibrium competition; Fusion protein; Induced fit; Ribozyme technology; RNA protein; Tertiary structure

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DOGS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

EID: 0030706176     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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