Crystal structure of the Ffh and EF-G binding sites in the conserved domain IV of Escherichia coli 4.5S RNA

Structure

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 527-540

  Jovine, Luca ^a,b,e   Hainzl, Tobias ^a   Oubridge, Chris ^a   Scott, William G ^c   Li, Jade ^a   Sixma, Titia K ^b   Wonacott, Alan ^d   Skarzynski, Tadeusz ^d   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4.5S RNA; EF G; Ffh; Non canonical base pairs; RNA protein recognition; Signal recognition particle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034657954     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00137-4     Document Type: Article

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