Talk:RNA-binding protein

Educational assignment
Lacarubb (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2013

Haned6011 (talk) 16:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)Haned6011

This Wikipedia article pertaining to RNA-binding proteins was written for a Developmental Biology class project at Boston College. As a team of three we edited the stub article and added a more extensive summary. We then added sections for diversity, function, the various ways that RNA recognizes it's targets and current research that is being conducted on RNA-binding proteins. Lacarubb (talk) 00:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC) Haned6011 (talk) 20:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Haned6011

Review from prewmi
Overall, you guys did a really great job at updating this article! The information presented is extensive and gives wide coverage of the topic. I went through and made a bunch of corrections with regards to punctuation, spelling, and grammar. I also have some corrections/suggestions. Here are the more general ones first:


 * Italicize scientific names of organisms (Xenopus, C. elegans, C. albicans, etc.)
 * Remove "Examples" section - I do not think it is necessary since you provide numerous examples throughout the article
 * Place "RNA-binding activity and recognition of the RNA sequence" section right after structure section since it discusses info that more closely goes with structure - I think this would help the article flow a little better
 * Fairly good amount of wikilinks – go through once more and see if you can add any more
 * Cite references more – not just at the end of a paragraph
 * Maybe add a few more pictures if possible
 * Cool video of C. elegans

Here are some more specific corrections/suggestions:
 * Make intro flow more smoothly – maybe add some more transition words
 * Remove the last two sentences of "Structure" section – I do not think they relate to structure
 * "Diversity" section – change the words "emerges" and "naked" to other words that are more fitting and appropriate, remove the last sentence
 * "Alternative splicing" section – remove the word "our", clarify what hnRNA and snRNP stand for
 * "Polyadenylation" section – fix the wikilink to 3'UTR so it actually links to that page, clarify what CPSF stands for
 * "dsRBM" section – remove "firstly," "secondly"
 * "RRM" section –discuss this first since it is the most common one
 * "Zinc finger" section – remove sentence beginning with “similar to…”, remove “that are mentioned above,” last sentence doesn’t make sense
 * "Germline" section – is (4) supposed to be a reference citation?
 * "Current research" section – remove “this section will briefly…”, where is UUGUUGUGUUGU sequence found?, clarify the beginning of the sentence starting with "serine-arginine..."

Prewmi (talk) 23:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Comments on edits -

In response to the suggestions some edits were made. Scientific names were italicized. The examples section was removed. Some more wikilinks were added. The article was edited to flow better. The last two sentences of structure were removed. The last sentence of diversity was removed. A wikilink was added to clarify the meaning of snRNP. The wikilink to3' UTR was fixed. Some of the other edits were taken into consideration but ultimately were not put into place. In the diversity section the words emerges and naked were often used in literature relating to mRNA and the binding proteins attached to them, and thus were deemed appropriate. In the alternative splicing section hnRNA was defined in the first section and thus I did not think it needed further clarification. In polyadenylation CPSF is defined as a polyadenylating protein, but I could not find what the actual acronym stood for. We also didn't feel that the rearrangement of the article would be appropriate. Lacarubb (talk) 01:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC)