Dead-box proteins: A family affair - Active and passive players in RNP-remodeling

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4168-4180

  Linder, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; DDX4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HCA4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RNA POLYMERASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 33749139723     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl468     Document Type: Review

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