Crystal structure of Cwc2 reveals a novel architecture of a multipartite RNA-binding protein

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2222-2234

  Schmitzová, Jana ^a   Rasche, Nicolas ^a   Dybkov, Olexander ^a   Kramer, Katharina ^a   Fabrizio, Patrizia ^a   Urlaub, Henning ^a,b   Lührmann, Reinhard ^a   Pena, Vladimir ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

RRM; spliceosome; Torus domain; X ray crystallography; zinc finger

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN CWC2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; SPLICEOSOME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84860540204     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.58     Document Type: Article

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