Quaternary arrangement of an active, native group II intron ribonucleoprotein complex revealed by small-angle X-ray scattering

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5347-5360

  Gupta, Kushol ^a   Contreras, Lydia M ^b,c   Smith, Dorie ^d   Qu, Guosheng ^d   Huang, Tao ^c,e   Spruce, Lynn A ^f   Seeholzer, Steven H ^a,f   Belfort, Marlene ^c,d   Van Duyne, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SUCROSE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

INTRONS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84899873003     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku140     Document Type: Article

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