Structural Basis for RNA Unwinding by the DEAD-Box Protein Drosophila Vasa

Cell

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-300

  Sengoku, Toru ^a,b   Nureki, Osamu ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^c   Kobayashi, Satoru ^d   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e Harima Institute ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID; ASPARTYLGLUTAMINYLALANYLASPARTIC ACID; PROTEIN; PROTEIN VASA; RNA HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 33646017369     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.01.054     Document Type: Article

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