The multiple Tudor domain-containing protein TDRD1 is a molecular scaffold for mouse Piwi proteins and piRNA biogenesis factors

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2056-2072

  Mathioudakis, Nikolas ^a   Palencia, Andres ^a   Kadlec, Jan ^a   Round, Adam ^a   Tripsianes, Konstantinos ^b   Sattler, Michael ^b   Pillai, Ramesh S ^a   Cusack, Stephen ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended Tudor domain; Methylated arginine; piRNA; Piwi protein; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DERIVATIVE; METHYLARGININE PEPTIDE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; TUDOR DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TITRIMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84867667939     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.034181.112     Document Type: Article

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