Structural basis for dimethylarginine recognition by the Tudor domains of human SMN and SPF30 proteins

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1414-1420

  Tripsianes, Konstantinos ^a,b   Madl, Tobias ^a,b   MacHyna, Martin ^c   Fessas, Dimitrios ^d   Englbrecht, Clemens ^e   Fischer, Utz ^e   Neugebauer, Karla M ^c   Sattler, Michael ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DERIVATIVE; CATION; DIMETHYLARGININE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HYDROXYL GROUP; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SPF30; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMN COMPLEX PROTEINS; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 82955233813     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2185     Document Type: Article

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