Structure and conserved RNA binding of the PAZ domain

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6965, 2003, Pages 469-474

  Yan, Kelley S ^a   Yan, Sherry ^a   Farooq, Amjad ^a   Han, Arnold ^a   Zeng, Lei ^a   Zhou, Ming Ming ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; GENES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEINS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANTIVIRAL DEFENCE; GENE SILENCING PATHWAYS;

RNA;

GENE PRODUCT; RNA; AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

GENETICS;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA;

EID: 0642345790     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02129     Document Type: Article

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