Molecular basis of purine-rich RNA recognition by the human SR-like protein Tra2-β1

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 443-451

  Cléry, Antoine ^a   Jayne, Sandrine ^a   Benderska, Natalya ^b   Dominguez, Cyril ^a   Stamm, Stefan ^b,c   Allain, Frédéric H T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 2; TRA2 BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PURINES; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 2 PROTEIN;

EID: 79953805056     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2001     Document Type: Article

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