The structural basis for the interaction between nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors UPF2 and UPF3

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 330-337

  Kadlec, Jan ^a   Izaurralde, Elisa ^b   Cusack, Stephen ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4G; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UP FRAMESHIFT PROTEIN 2; UP FRAMESHIFT PROTEIN 3;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1842473091     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb741     Document Type: Article

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