Structural insights into the molecular mechanism of the m6A writer complex

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue September, 2016, Pages

  Śledź, Paweł ^a   Jinek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENOSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE LIKE 14; METHYLTRANSFERASE LIKE 3; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAP BINDING PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METTL14 PROTEIN, HUMAN; METTL3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HANGING DROP VAPOR DIFFUSION METHOD; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METHYLATION; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA CAP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84988476329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.18434     Document Type: Article

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