Crystal structure of an RNA aptamer-protein complex at 2.8 Å resolution

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-139

  Convery, Máire A ^a,b   Rowsell, Siân ^a,b   Storehouse, Nicola J ^b,c   Ellington, Andrew D ^d   Hirao, Ichira ^d,e   Murray, James B ^b,c,d   Peabody, David S ^f   Phillips, Simon E V ^a,b   Stockley, Peter G ^b,c  

^a Building #41   (Australia)

^b N of England Struct Biology Centre

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; RNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING;

ASPARAGINE; CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN BONDING; LEVIVIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031951789     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0298-133     Document Type: Review

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