FRAXE-associated mental retardation protein (FMR2) is an RNA-binding protein with high affinity for G-quartet RNA forming structure

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1269-1279

  Bensaid, Mounia ^a,b   Melko, Mireille ^a,b   Bechara, Elias G ^a,b   Davidovic, Laetitia ^a,b   Berretta, Antonio ^c,d   Catania, Maria Vincenza ^c,e   Gecz, Jozef ^f   Lalli, Enzo ^a,b   Bardoni, Barbara ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN 1; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA SC35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXONIC SPLICING ENHANCER; G QUARTET; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RAT; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; CELLS, CULTURED; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 62549119174     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1058     Document Type: Article

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