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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages 505-516Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3154
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Canton of Geneva
- US National Institutes of Health [RO1GM006770]
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
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RNA helicases of the DEAD box family are present in all eukaryotic cells and in many bacteria and Archaea. These highly conserved enzymes are required for RNA metabolism from transcription to degradation and are therefore important players in gene expression. DEAD box proteins use ATP to unwind short duplex RNA in an unusual fashion and remodel RNA-protein complexes, but they can also function as ATP-dependent RNA clamps to provide nucleation centres that establish larger RNA-protein complexes. Structural, mechanistic and molecular biological studies have started to reveal how these conserved proteins can perform such diverse functions and how accessory proteins have a central role in their regulation.
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