Stepwise protein-mediated RNA folding directs assembly of telomerase ribonucleoprotein

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7134, 2007, Pages 458-461

  Stone, Michael D ^a   Mihalusova, Mariana ^b   O'Connor, Catherine M ^d   Prathapam, Ramadevi ^d   Collins, Kathleen ^d   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HOLOENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA; TELOMERASE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 33947494652     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05600     Document Type: Article

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