Xenopus ElrB, but not ElrA, binds RNA as an oligomer: Possible role of the linker

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4947-4952

  Devaux, Agathe ^a   Colegrove Otero, Lucy J ^a   Standart, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ELAV proteins; Oligomerisation; RNA binding; Xenopus oogenesis

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; RECOMBINANT ELRA PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ELRB PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA BINDING; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 33747815888     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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