Crystal structure of the two RNA binding domains of human hnRNP A1 at 1.75 A resolution

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 215-222

  Shamoo, Y ^a   Krueger, U ^a   Rice, L M ^a   Williams, K R ^a   Steitz, T A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP A-B; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031047632     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0397-215     Document Type: Article

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