DExD/H-box proteins and their partners: helping RNA helicases unwind

Gene - Tập 312 - Trang 1-16 - 2003
Edward J. Silverman1, Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert2, Ren-Jang Lin1
1Division of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, 1450 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
2W.M. Keck Science Center of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711, USA

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