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SUBMITTER: Tan D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3552377 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tan Dazhi D Marzluff William F WF Dominski Zbigniew Z Tong Liang L
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20130101 6117
Metazoan replication-dependent histone messenger RNAs (mRNAs) have a conserved stem-loop (SL) at their 3'-end. The stem-loop binding protein (SLBP) specifically recognizes the SL to regulate histone mRNA metabolism, and the 3'-5' exonuclease 3'hExo trims its 3'-end after processing. We report the crystal structure of a ternary complex of human SLBP RNA binding domain, human 3'hExo, and a 26-nucleotide SL RNA. Only one base of the SL is recognized specifically by SLBP, and the two proteins primar ...[more]