The Cold Shock Domain of YB-1 Segregates RNA from DNA by Non-Bonded Interactions

Vladislav Kljashtorny1, Stanislav Nikonov2, Lev Ovchinnikov2

  • 1Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UMR 829, Laboratoire Structure-Activité des Biomolécules Normales et Pathologiques, Bd François Mitterrand, 91025 Evry Cedex, France; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UMRS 942, Hôpital Lariboisière, 41 boulevard de la Chapelle, 75475 Paris cedex 10, France; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de paris (APHP), Hôpital Lariboisière, Service de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire, Paris, France.

Plos One
|July 7, 2015
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