RNA target specificity of the STAR/GSG domain post-transcriptional regulatory protein GLD-1

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-28

  Ryder, Sean P ^a   Frater, Leah A ^b   Abramovitz, Dana L ^a,c   Goodwin, Elizabeth B ^b   Williamson, James R ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Ingenuity Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLD 1; PROTEIN STAR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA PACKAGING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, HELMINTH; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 0842269781     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb706     Document Type: Article

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