The Crystal Structure of the Exon Junction Complex Reveals How It Maintains a Stable Grip on mRNA

Cell

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 713-725

  Bono, Fulvia ^a   Ebert, Judith ^a   Lorentzen, Esben ^a   Conti, Elena ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BARENTSZ; PROTEIN MAGO; PROTEIN Y14; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELF4AIII; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; EXON; HUMAN; METAZOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MAGO; METAZOA;

EID: 33747182255     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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