Crystal structure of the primary piRNA biogenesis factor Zucchini reveals similarity to the bacterial PLD endonuclease Nuc

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2128-2134

  Voigt, Franka ^a   Reuter, Michael ^b   Kasaruho, Anisa ^b   Schulz, Eike C ^a   Pillai, Ramesh S ^b   Barabas, Orsolya ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

MitoPLD; Nuclease; Phospholipase; piRNA; Piwi; PLD6; Zucchini

Indexed keywords

DIMER; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID; PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOPHYSICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZUCCHINI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84869825301     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.034967.112     Document Type: Article

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