... stabili-ties of interaction with the pre-60S complex and notinefficient binding to the column. In order to determine whether the Nop53p trun-cated mutants also bind RNA directly, in vitro RNA binding assays ... [31]. In order to determine whetherNop53p interacts with the pre-rRNA early duringtranscription, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)experiments were performed, using the fusion protein protein ... RNA sequencespecificity in in vitro RNA binding experiments. Simi-larly, Nop9p, another example of an RNA -binding protein involved in pre-rRNA processing, associates with 20S pre-rRNA but does...