RNA-binding proteins: modular design for efficient function

BM Lunde, C Moore, G Varani - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2007 - nature.com
Many RNA-binding proteins have modular structures and are composed of multiple repeats
of just a few basic domains that are arranged in various ways to satisfy their diverse …

RNA recognition motifs: boring? Not quite

A Cléry, M Blatter, FHT Allain - Current opinion in structural biology, 2008 - Elsevier
The RNA recognition motif (RRM) is one of the most abundant protein domains in
eukaryotes. While the structure of this domain is well characterized by the packing of two α …

Protein factors in pre-mRNA 3′-end processing

CR Mandel, Y Bai, L Tong - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2008 - Springer
Most eukaryotic mRNA precursors (premRNAs) must undergo extensive processing,
including cleavage and polyadenylation at the 3′-end. Processing at the 3′-end is …

Building specificity with nonspecific RNA-binding proteins

R Singh, J Valcárcel - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2005 - nature.com
Specificity is key to biological regulation. Two families of RNA binding proteins,
heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins and serine-arginine–rich proteins, were initially …

NMR structure of the three quasi RNA recognition motifs (qRRMs) of human hnRNP F and interaction studies with Bcl-x G-tract RNA: a novel mode of RNA recognition

C Dominguez, FHT Allain - Nucleic acids research, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) F belongs to the hnRNP H family
involved in the regulation of alternative splicing and polyadenylation and specifically …

Structure determination and dynamics of protein–RNA complexes by NMR spectroscopy

C Dominguez, M Schubert, O Duss… - Progress in nuclear …, 2011 - Elsevier
As of March 2010, 141 structures of protein–RNA complexes with a molecular weight lower
than 40 kDa have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Of these structures, 52 …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal structure of murine CstF-77: dimeric association and implications for polyadenylation of mRNA precursors

Y Bai, TC Auperin, CY Chou, GG Chang, JL Manley… - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
Cleavage stimulation factor (CstF) is a heterotrimeric protein complex essential for
polyadenylation of mRNA precursors. The 77 kDa subunit, CstF-77, is known to mediate …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative polyadenylation dependent function of splicing factor SRSF3 contributes to cellular senescence

T Shen, H Li, Y Song, L Li, J Lin, G Wei, T Ni - Aging (Albany NY), 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Down-regulated splicing factor SRSF3 is known to promote cellular senescence, an
important biological process in preventing cancer and contributing to individual aging, via its …

The role of disordered regions in orchestrating the properties of multidomain proteins: The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein and its interaction with enoxaparin

M Schiavina, L Pontoriero, G Tagliaferro, R Pierattelli… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Novel and efficient strategies need to be developed to interfere with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
One of the most promising pharmaceutical targets is the nucleocapsid protein (N) …

Structural insight into RNA recognition motifs: versatile molecular Lego building blocks for biological systems

Y Muto, S Yokoyama - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 'RNA recognition motifs (RRMs)'are common domain‐folds composed of 80–90
amino‐acid residues in eukaryotes, and have been identified in many cellular proteins. At …