Contribution of individual amino acids to the RNA binding activity of the wilms' tumor suppressor protein WT1

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 148-155

  Weiss, Tristen C ^a   Romaniuk, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMERS; ARGININE RESIDUES; DNA-BINDING; EQUILIBRIUM BINDING; POINT MUTATIONS; RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING ACTIVITY; TUMOR SUPPRESSORS; ZINC FINGER DOMAINS; ZINC FINGER PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; DNA; GENES; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA; ZINC;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AMINO ACID; APTAMER; ARGININE; MUTANT PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; WT1 PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING ASSAY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; DNA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; WT1 PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 58549101130     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801586a     Document Type: Article

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