Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yang K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2544537 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Kui K Zhang Lingdi L Xu Tao T Heroux Annie A Zhao Rui R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080908 37
Prp8 stands out among hundreds of splicing factors as a key regulator of spliceosome activation and a potential cofactor of the splicing reaction. We present here the crystal structure of a 274-residue domain (residues 1,822-2,095) near the C terminus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Prp8. The most striking feature of this domain is a beta-hairpin finger protruding out of the protein (hence, this domain will be referred to as the beta-finger domain), resembling many globular ribosomal proteins with p ...[more]