Structural basis for recognition of the tra mRNA precursor by the Sex- lethal protein

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 579-584

  Handa, Noriko ^a   Nureki, Osamu ^a,b   Kurimoto, Kazuki ^a   Kim, Insil ^a   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^c   Shimura, Yoshiro ^d,e   Muto, Yutaka ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECT HORMONES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PYRIMIDINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033560881     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19242     Document Type: Article

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