Chemical shift perturbation studies of the interactions of the second RNA-binding domain of the Drosophila sex-lethal protein with the transformer pre-mRNA polyuridine tract and 3' splice-site sequences

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 649-660

  Chi, Seung Wook ^a   Muto, Yutaka ^d   Inoue, Makoto ^d   Kim, Insil ^d   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^d   Shimura, Yoshiro ^b   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^c   Choi, Byong Seok ^a   Kim, Hyoungman ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Drosophila; NMR; RNA binding; Sex determination; Sx1 protein

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA BINDING; SEX DETERMINATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLY U; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0033559639     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00157.x     Document Type: Article

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