Dimerization and heme binding are conserved in amphibian and starfish homologues of the microrna processing protein DGCR8

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Senturia, Rachel ^a   Laganowsky, Arthur ^b,c   Barr, Ian ^a   Scheidemantle, Brooke D ^a   Guo, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGEORGE CRITICAL REGION 8 PROTEIN; HEME; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE SEPARATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STARFISH; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMPHIBIA; ASTERINA MINIATA; ASTEROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; HEME; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STARFISH; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84863624496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039688     Document Type: Article

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