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Coordination of divalent metal ions in the active site of poly(A)-specific ribonuclease.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 19 Nov 2004
Ren Yan-Guo, Kirsebom Leif A, Virtanen Anders
Abstract excerpt
Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN) is a highly poly(A)-specific 3'-exoribonuclease that efficiently degrades mRNA poly(A) tails. PARN belongs to the DEDD family of nucleases, and four conserved residues are essential for PARN activity, i.e. Asp-28, Glu-30, Asp-292, and Asp-382. Here we have investigated how catalytically important divalent metal ions are coordinated in the active site of PARN. Each of the...
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