RRM-RNA recognition: NMR or crystallography...and new findings

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-108

  Daubner, Gerrit M ^a   Cléry, Antoine ^a   Allain, Frédéric H T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN U2AF65; RNA; RNA 23S; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACCURACY; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOPHYSICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA RECOGNITION MOTIF; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84873521914     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.11.006     Document Type: Review

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