Biophysical and biochemical analysis of hnRNP K: Arginine methylation, reversible aggregation and combinatorial binding to nucleic acids

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 395, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 837-853

  Moritz, Bodo ^a   Lilie, Hauke ^a   Naarmann De Vries, Isabel S ^a,b   Urlaub, Henning ^c,d   Wahle, Elmar ^a   Ostareck Lederer, Antje ^a,b   Ostareck, Dirk H ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arginine methylation; Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K; Hnrnp K homology domains; Rnabinding domain; Self Aggregation; Steady state nucleic acid Interaction

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONATE 15 LIPOXYGENASE; ARGININE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN K; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN VARIANT; PYRIMIDINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIATION CONTROL ELEMENT; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERACTIONS WITH NUCLEIC ACID; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEADY STATE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN K; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MICE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84904159364     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2014-0146     Document Type: Article

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