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Figure 1.
(a) Schematic representation of the domain organization of DBP5 with the domain boundaries of the protein constructs used in this study. The RecA-like domains are colored blue and the N-terminal region is shown in orange. (b) Protein precipitations with biotinylated single-stranded RNA identify the RNA binding region of human DBP5 for structural studies. Purified proteins were mixed with 5' end–biotinylated 20-mer single-stranded RNA and incubated with or without AMPPNP or ADP, as indicated. Proteins mixtures before (input, 17% of the total) and after coprecipitation (precipitate) were separated on a 15% (w/v) acrylamide SDS-PAGE and visualized using Coomassie stain. The molecular weight standards are shown in lane 1. DBP5 constructs are described in a. NUP214 C corresponds to residues 1–405 (human sequence). (c) Structure of DBP5 N (light blue) bound to AMPPNP (yellow) and single-stranded RNA (black). The magnesium ion at the ATP binding site is shown in magenta. Six ordered nucleotides of a single-stranded poly-U RNA are present in the 2.2-Å resolution structure. The N- and C-terminal residues of DBP5 visible in the electron density are indicated. The N-terminal region of DBP5 (residues 75–92, orange) folds into a short -helix. This and all other ribbon diagrams in the manuscript were generated using PyMol (http://www.pymol.org).

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