SRP RNA controls a conformational switch regulating the SRP-SRP receptor interaction

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 916-923

  Neher, Saskia B ^a   Bradshaw, Niels ^a   Floor, Stephen N ^a   Gross, John D ^a   Walter, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCKING PROTEIN; FFH ENZYME; FTSY ENZYME; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

EID: 51349165658     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1467     Document Type: Article

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