An artificial PPR scaffold for programmable RNA recognition

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Coquille, Sandrine ^a   Filipovska, Aleksandra ^b   Chia, Tiongsun ^b   Rajappa, Lional ^a   Lingford, James P ^b   Razif, Muhammad F M ^b   Thore, Stéphane ^a   Rackham, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BIOENGINEERING; CELL ORGANELLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN; RNA; STABILIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84922741866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6729     Document Type: Article

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