Kinetic pathway for folding of the Tetrahymena ribozyme revealed by three UV-inducible crosslinks

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 718-732

  Downs, William D ^a,b   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

folding domain; group I intron; metal cations; RNA folding problem; tertiary structure; thermal melting

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; RIBOZYME; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0029904022     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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