Kinked β-strands mediate high-affinity recognition of mRNA targets by the germ-cell regulator DAZL

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 18266-18271

  Jenkins, Huw T ^a   Malkova, Bara ^a   Edwards, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAZL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BETA SHEET; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GERM CELLS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

MURINAE;

EID: 81055141366     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105211108     Document Type: Article

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