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. 2015 Mar 25;10(3):e0120268. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120268

Fig 5. MAEL HMG-box domain binding to long RNAs.

Fig 5

(A) The secondary structure of a conserved fragment of L1_Md_F2 element from chromosome 10 enriched in MAEL immunoprecipitates determined using combination of covariance and thermodynamic analyses. (B) MAEL HMG-box domain forms strong multi-protein complex with 277-nt fragment and binds weakly to shorter fragments (200-nt, 149-nt) of the same RNA. This suggests a requirement for complex tertiary structures in long RNAs for strong binding to the MAEL HMG-box domain. (C) MAEL HMG-box domain does not bind long RNAs originating from regions not enriched in MAEL immunoprecipitates.