The author is at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. bergj@mail.nih.gov
Although zinc fingers are best known to interact with DNA, they can, as in the case of the TFIIIA protein, also interact with RNA. A recent crystal structure reveals that zinc fingers can take advantage of the variability of RNA structure to recognize a particular RNA fragment.
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