Mapping interactions between the RNA chaperone FinO and its RNA targets

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4450-4463

  Arthur, David C ^a   Edwards, Ross A ^a   Tsutakawa, Susan ^b   Tainer, John A ^b,c   Frost, Laura S ^a   Glover, J N Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FINO; PROTEIN FINP; PROTEIN TRAJ; RIBONUCLEASE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRAJ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 79961174453     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr025     Document Type: Article

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