Dead-box proteins: The driving forces behind RNA metabolism

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 232-241

  Rocak, Sanda ^a   Linder, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA HELICASE;

DISSOCIATION; ENERGY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACIDS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA HELICASES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542344429     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1335     Document Type: Review

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