Functional characterization of the AFF (AF4/FMR2) family of RNA-binding proteins: Insights into the molecular pathology of FRAXE intellectual disability

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1873-1885

  Melko, Mireille ^a   Douguet, Dominique ^a   Bensaid, Mounia ^a,d   Zongaro, Samantha ^a   Verheggen, Céline ^b   Gecz, Jozef ^c   Bardoni, Barbara ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MILITARY HOSPITAL MOHAMMED V   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFF PROTEIN; AFF1 PROTEIN; AFF2 PROTEIN; AFF3 PROTEIN; AFF4 PROTEIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAXE INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 79955409469     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr069     Document Type: Article

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