The Xist RNA A-repeat comprises a novel AUCG tetraloop fold and a platform for multimerization

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1973-1982

  Duszczyk, Malgorzata M ^a,b,e   Wutz, Anton ^c   Rybin, Vladimir ^d   Sattler, Michael ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

A repeats; Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); RNA tetraloop; Structural biology; X inactivation; Xist RNA

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; DNA HAIRPIN; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X INACTIVATION SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT GENE;

ANIMALS; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA FOLDING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80054719512     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2747411     Document Type: Article

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