The crystal structure of the Argonaute2 PAZ domain reveals an RNA binding motif in RNAi effector complexes

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1026-1032

  Song, Ji Joon ^a,b   Liu, Jidong ^a   Tolia, Niraj H ^a,b   Schneiderman, Jonathan ^a   Smith, Stephanie K ^a,b   Martienssen, Robert A ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a   Joshua Tor, Leemor ^a,b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b W M Keck Structural Biology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0345490960     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1016     Document Type: Article

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