Crystallization and characterization of Smaug: A novel RNA-binding motif

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 297, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1085-1088

  Green, Justin B ^a   Edwards, Thomas A ^a   Trincao, Jose ^a   Escalante, Carlos R ^a   Wharton, Robin P ^b   Aggarwal, Aneel K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMAUG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA BINDING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0036399160     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02327-6     Document Type: Article

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