Differential chemical probing of a group II self-splicing intron identifies bases involved in tertiary interactions and supports an alternative secondary structure model of domain V

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1055-1068

  Costa, Maria ^a,c   Christian, Eric L ^b   Michel, François ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Group II intron; Methylation probing; Ribozyme; RNA structure; Spliceosomal RNAs

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFATE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA METHYLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE, BROWN; ALKYLATING AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS;

ALGAE; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS;

EID: 0031662075     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980670     Document Type: Article

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