Mycoplasma fermentans simplifies our view of the catalytic core of ribonuclease P RNA

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 452-462

  Siegel, Robert W ^a   Banta, Amy B ^a,b   Haas, Elizabeth S ^a,c   Brown, James W ^a,c   Pace, Norman R ^a,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

phylogenetic analysis; RNA catalysis; RNA structure; RNase P

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBONUCLEASE P;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS;

EID: 0029853929     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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