The ion-induced folding of the hammerhead ribozyme: Core sequence changes that perturb folding into the active conformation

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 756-768

  Bassi, Gurminder S ^a   Murchie, Alastair I H ^a   Lilley, David M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

catalysis; hammerhead ribozyme; metal ion binding; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; METAL ION; RIBOZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOMETRY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029903452     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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