RNA recognition by the joint action of two nucleolin RNA-binding domains: Genetic analysis and structural modeling

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5235-5246

  Bouvet, Philippe ^a   Jain, Chaitanya ^b   Belasco, Joel G ^b   Amalric, François ^a   Erard, Monique ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli genetics; Nucleolin; RNA binding domain; RNA binding specificity; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEOLIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030865119     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.17.5235     Document Type: Article

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