Structure and function of Zucchini endoribonuclease in piRNA biogenesis

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7423, 2012, Pages 284-287

  Nishimasu, Hiroshi ^a   Ishizu, Hirotsugu ^a,b   Saito, Kuniaki ^b   Fukuhara, Satoshi ^a   Kamatani, Miharu K ^b   Bonnefond, Luc ^a,e   Matsumoto, Naoki ^a   Nishizawa, Tomohiro ^a   Nakanaga, Keita ^c   Aoki, Junken ^c   Ishitani, Ryuichiro ^a   Siomi, Haruhiko ^b   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a,b,d   Nureki, Osamu ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZUCCHINI ENDORIBONUCLEASE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; MATURATION; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; VEGETABLE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA CLEAVAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURFACE CHARGE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84868626090     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11509     Document Type: Article

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