The widely conserved Era G-protein contains an RNA-binding domain required for Era function in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1118-1131

  Johnstone, Brian H ^a,b   Handler, Aaron A ^a   Chao, Diana K ^a,c   Nguyen, Vi ^a   Smith, Michael ^a,d   Ryu, Seung Y ^a   Simons, Elizabeth L ^a   Anderson, Paul E ^a   Simons, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032846245     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01553.x     Document Type: Article

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