Structural analysis of human 2′-O-ribose methyltransferases involved in mRNA cap structure formation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Smietanski, Miroslaw ^a   Werner, Maria ^a   Purta, Elzbieta ^a   Kaminska, Katarzyna H ^a   Stepinski, Janusz ^b   Darzynkiewicz, Edward ^b,c   Nowotny, Marcin ^a   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^a,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2' O RIBOSE METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAPPED RNA; CMTR1 PROTEIN; CMTR2 PROTEIN; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HMTR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HMTR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMINID; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DENGUE VIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; VACCINIA VIRUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA PROCESSING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA CAPS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84892178635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4004     Document Type: Article

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