Analysis of the CYT-18 protein binding site at the junction of stacked helices in a group I intron RNA by quantitative binding assays and in vitro selection

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-42

  Saldanha, Roland ^a   Ellington, Andrew ^b   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Catalytic RNA; Neurospora crassa; Ribozyme; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; INTRON; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0030576507     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0439     Document Type: Article

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