Ribozyme mechanism revisited: Evidence against direct coordination of a Mg2+ ion with the pro-R oxygen of the scissile phosphate in the transition state of a hammerhead ribozyme-catalyzed reaction

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 37, 1996, Pages 8969-8970

  Zhou, De Min ^a,b,c   Kumar, Penmetcha K R ^a   Zhang, Li He ^b   Taira, Kazunari ^a,c  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0029815519     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja961756u     Document Type: Article

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