Arabidopsis Argonaute MID domains use their nucleotide specificity loop to sort small RNAs

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 3588-3595

  Frank, Filipp ^a,b   Hauver, Jesse ^a   Sonenberg, Nahum ^a,b   Nagar, Bhushan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Argonaute MID domains; Argonaute sorting; crystallography; NMR; small RNAs

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84866140582     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.204     Document Type: Article

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