Crystal structure of the spliceosomal U2B'-U2A' protein complex bound to a fragment of U2 small nuclear RNA

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 645-650

  Price, Stephen R ^a,b   Evans, Philip R ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SPLICEOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U2 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0032514483     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29234     Document Type: Article

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