RNA modifications and structures cooperate to guide RNA-protein interactions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 202-210

  Lewis, Cole J T ^a   Pan, Tao ^b   Kalsotra, Auinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLADENOSINE; 5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 6 N METHYLADENOSINE; GUIDE RNA; PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBOSOME RNA; SERINE ARGININE RICH SPLICING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SPLICING; REVIEW; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY;

NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SPLICING; PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 85011291934     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.163     Document Type: Review

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