Use of RNA Tertiary Interaction Modules for the Crystallisation of the Spliceosomal snRNP Core Domain

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 402, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-164

  Leung, Adelaine K W ^a   Kambach, Christian ^a   Kondo, Yasushi ^a   Kampmann, Martin ^a   Jinek, Martin ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystallisation; Crystallography; Ribonucleoprotein particle; RNA; Tertiary interaction

Indexed keywords

PAROMOMYCIN; PROTEIN SM; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; RNA; U4 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA BINDING; SPLICEOSOME; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAROMOMYCIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 77956180003     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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