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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC305568 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang H H Boisvert D D Kim K K KK Kim R R Kim S H SH
The EMBO journal 20000201 3
Fibrillarin is a phylogenetically conserved protein essential for efficient processing of pre-rRNA through its association with a class of small nucleolar RNAs during ribosomal biogenesis. The protein is the antigen for the autoimmune disease scleroderma. Here we report the crystal structure of the fibrillarin homologue from Methanococcus jannaschii, a hyperthermophile, at 1.6 A resolution. The structure consists of two domains, with a novel fold in the N-terminal region and a methyltransferase- ...[more]