Members of this family include the DEAD and DEAH box helicases. Helicases are involved in unwinding nucleic acids. The DEAD box helicases are involved in various aspects of RNA metabolism, including nuclear transcription, pre mRNA splicing, ribosome ...
Members of this family include the DEAD and DEAH box helicases. Helicases are involved in unwinding nucleic acids. The DEAD box helicases are involved in various aspects of RNA metabolism, including nuclear transcription, pre mRNA splicing, ribosome biogenesis, nucleocytoplasmic transport, translation, RNA decay and organellar gene expression.
The Prosite family is restricted to DEAD/H helicases, whereas this domain family is found in a wide variety of helicases and helicase related proteins. It may be that this is not an autonomously folding unit, but an integral part of the helicase.
The FDF domain, so called because of the conserved FDF at its N termini, is an entirely alpha-helical domain with multiple exposed hydrophilic loops [1]. It is found at the C terminus of Scd6p-like SM domains [1][2]. It is also found with other dive ...
The FDF domain, so called because of the conserved FDF at its N termini, is an entirely alpha-helical domain with multiple exposed hydrophilic loops [1]. It is found at the C terminus of Scd6p-like SM domains [1][2]. It is also found with other divergent Sm domains and in proteins such as Dcp3p and FLJ21128, where it is found N terminal to the YjeF-N domain, a novel Rossmann fold domain [1].