A unique HMG-Box domain of mouse maelstrom binds structured RNA but not double stranded DNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Genzor, Pavol ^a,b   Bortvin, Alex ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MAELSTROM PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MAELSTROM PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN BINDING; RETROPOSON; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AT HOOK MOTIF; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING ASSAY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HMG-BOX DOMAINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84961289864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120268     Document Type: Article

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