Linder Patrick, Lasko Paul
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland.
Cell. 2006 Apr 21;125(2):219-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.03.030.
RNA helicases of the DEAD-box family are involved in essentially all RNA-dependent cellular processes. In this issue of Cell, Sengoku et al. (2006) solve the structure of the DEAD-box protein Vasa in the presence of RNA and a nonhydrolyzable ATP analog and provide important insights into how this family of helicases unwinds RNA.
DEAD-box家族的RNA解旋酶基本上参与了所有依赖RNA的细胞过程。在本期《细胞》杂志中,Sengoku等人(2006年)解析了在存在RNA和一种不可水解的ATP类似物的情况下DEAD-box蛋白Vasa的结构,并为该解旋酶家族如何解开RNA提供了重要见解。