The eukaryotic initiation factor eIF4H facilitates loop-binding, repetitive RNA unwinding by the eIF4A DEAD-box helicase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 6199-6207

  Sun, Yingjie ^a   Atas, Evrim ^a   Lindqvist, Lisa ^b   Sonenberg, Nahum ^b   Pelletier, Jerry ^b   Meller, Amit ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; HELICASE; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4H; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; RNA UNWINDING; TITRIMETRY; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84864491902     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks278     Document Type: Article

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