Structural and functional implications of the QUA2 domain on RNA recognition by GLD-1

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8092-8105

  Daubner, Gerrit M ^a   Brümmer, Anneke ^b   Tocchini, Cristina ^c   Gerhardy, Stefan ^a   Ciosk, Rafal ^c   Zavolan, Mihaela ^b   Allain, Frédéric H T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLD 1 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; KH QUA2 DOMAIN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; URACIL;

EID: 84903975861     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku445     Document Type: Article

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