HEXIM1 targets a repeated GAUC motif in the riboregulator of transcription 7SK and promotes base pair rearrangements

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7749-7763

  Lebars, Isabelle ^a   Martinez Zapien, D ^a   Durand, A ^a   Coutant, J ^b   Kieffer, B ^a   Dock Bregeon, A C ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b Bruker Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN HEXIM1; RNA POLYMERASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 78649888513     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq660     Document Type: Article

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