The structure, function and evolution of proteins that bind DNA and RNA

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 749-760

  Hudson, William H ^a   Ortlund, Eric A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA PROCESSING; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; ANIMAL; BINDING COMPETITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84908204795     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3884     Document Type: Article

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