Functional stabilization of an RNA recognition motif by a noncanonical N-terminal expansion

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1305-1313

  Netter, Catharina ^a   Weber, Gert ^a,b   Benecke, Heike ^c   Wahl, Markus C ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Protein; RNA recognition motif (RRM); RNP motif; U11 U12 di snRNP; U11 U12 65K protein; U1A protein; U2B ; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN U11; PROTEIN U12 65K; PROTEIN U1A; PROTEIN U2B''; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA STABILITY; SPLICEOSOME; THERMOSTABILITY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 67649362227     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1359909     Document Type: Article

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