Branch-site selection in a group II intron mediated by active recognition of the adenine amino group and steric exclusion of non-adenine functionalities

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 163-171

  Liu, Qiaolian ^a   Green, Justin B ^a   Khodadadi, Arbi ^a   Haeberli, Peter ^b   Beigelman, Leonid ^b   Pyle, Anna Marie ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys and S ^*  (United States)

^b Sirna Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Base flipping; Ribozyme; RNA catalysis; RNA folding; Self splicing

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENOSINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ARTICLE; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0031582058     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0845     Document Type: Article

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