Structural analysis of Stc1 provides insights into the coupling of RNAi and chromatin modification

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages

  He, Chao ^a   Pillai, Sreerekha S ^b,c   Taglini, Francesca ^b,c   Li, Fudong ^a   Ruan, Ke ^a   Zhang, Jiahai ^a   Wu, Jihui ^a   Shi, Yunyu ^a   Bayne, Elizabeth H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NMR; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; STC1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

NMR; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84878126672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212155110     Document Type: Article

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