The RNA-binding SAM domain of Smaug defines a new family of post-transcriptional regulators

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 614-621

  Aviv, Tzvi ^a,b   Lin, Zhen ^a   Lau, Stefanie ^a   Rendl, Laura M ^b   Sicheri, Frank ^a,b   Smibert, Craig A ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMAUG; PROTEIN VTS1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0042490664     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb956     Document Type: Article

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