The crystal structure of the Drosophila germline inducer Oskar identifies two domains with distinct Vasa Helicase- and RNA-binding activities

Cell Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 587-598

  Jeske, Mandy ^a   Bordi, Matteo ^a   Glatt, Sebastian ^a   Müller, Sandra ^a   Rybin, Vladimir ^a   Müller, Christoph W ^a   Ephrussi, Anne ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; LOTUS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OSKAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; SGNH HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASA PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; OSKAR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN BINDING; VAS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; GENE; GERM CELL LESS GENE; GERM LINE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NANOS GENE; NONHUMAN; POLAR GRANULE COMPONENT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84947045999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.06.055     Document Type: Article

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