Structural insights into mechanisms of the small RNA methyltransferase HEN1

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7265, 2009, Pages 823-827

  Huang, Ying ^a   Ji, Lijuan ^b   Huang, Qichen ^a   Vassylyev, Dmitry G ^a   Chen, Xuemei ^b   Ma, Jin Biao ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LA ANTIGEN; MAGNESIUM ION; MICRORNA; PROTEIN HEN1; PROTEIN P19; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MAGNESIUM; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI;

EID: 70349939426     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08433     Document Type: Article

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