Structural mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus Hfq binding to an RNA A-tract

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 11023-11035

  Horstmann, Nicola ^a   Orans, Jillian ^b   Valentin Hansen, Poul ^c   Shelburne, Samuel A ^a   Brennan, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HFQ PROTEIN; LYSINE; LYSINE 33; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE 30; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLY A; PROTEIN BINDING; PURINES; RNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84870625738     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks809     Document Type: Article

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