Structural basis for specific recognition of multiple mRNA targets by a PUF regulatory protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 20186-20191

  Wang, Yeming ^a   Opperman, Laura ^b   Wickens, Marvin ^b   Tanaka Hall, Traci M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Base flipping; Crystal structure; fem 3 binding factor; RNA; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; FEM 3 BINDING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PUF PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 73949159967     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812076106     Document Type: Article

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