A characteristic arrangement of aromatic amino acid residues in the solution structure of the amino-terminal RNA-binding domain of Drosophila sex-lethal

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-94

  Inoue, Makoto ^a   Muto, Yutaka ^a   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^b   Kigawa, Takanori ^a,c   Takio, Koji ^c   Shimura, Yoshiro ^d,e   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

NMR; RNA binding domain; RNP motif; Sex lethal; Tertiary structure

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031565722     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1213     Document Type: Article

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