The putative RNase P motif in the DEAD box helicase Hera is dispensable for efficient interaction with RNA and helicase activity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5800-5811

  Linden, Martin H ^a   Hartmann, Roland K ^b   Klostermeier, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL RNA; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 54549123661     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn581     Document Type: Article

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