An RNA internal loop acts as a hinge to facilitate ribozyme folding and catalysis

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 838-849

  Szewczak, Alexander A ^a   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydroxyl radical footprinting; Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; P4 P6 domain; RNA folding; Tetrahymena group I Intron

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL RADICAL; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EDETIC ACID; ELECTROPHORESIS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; INTRONS; IRON; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0030761966     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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