NMR structure of the let-7 miRNA interacting with the site LCS1 of lin-41 mRNA from Caenorhabditis elegans

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7814-7821

  Cevec, Mirko ^a   Thibaudeau, Christophe ^a   Plavec, Janez ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c EN FIST Center of Excellence   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LET 7 MICRORNA; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649857180     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq640     Document Type: Article

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