Structural basis for the molecular recognition between human splicing factors U2AF65 and SF1/mBBP

Molecular Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 965-976

  Selenko, Philipp ^a   Gregorovic, Goran ^b   Sprangers, Remco ^a   Stier, Gunter ^a   Rhani, Zakaria ^b,c   Krämer, Angela ^b   Sattler, Michael ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; SPLICEOSOME;

EID: 0038298868     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00115-1     Document Type: Article

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