Structural basis for m3G-cap-mediated nuclear import of spliceosomal UsnRNPs by snurportin1

EMBO Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2235-2243

  Strasser, Anja ^a   Dickmanns, Achim ^a   Lührmann, Reinhard ^b   Ficner, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 cap; Crystallography; Nuclear transport; Snurportin1; UsnRNP

Indexed keywords

2,2,7 TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE; 2,2,7 TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE CAP BINDING PROTEIN; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CAP BINDING PROTEIN; CAP BINDING PROTEIN 20; GUANOSINE; GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; HEPTAMETHYLGUANOSINE CAP BINDING PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; KARYOPHERIN BETA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SM; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SNURPORTIN 1; TRANSFERASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN 39; CAPPED RNA; CELL RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEAR CAP BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RNUT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; VP39 PROTEIN, VACCINIA VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DELETION MUTANT; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR CAP-BINDING PROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA CAP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA CAPS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPLICEOSOMES; TRYPTOPHAN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 22744441209     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600701     Document Type: Article

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