Influence of substrate structure on in vitro ribozyme activity of a group II intron

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 694-708

  Nolte, Alexis ^a   Chanfreau, Guillaume ^a   Jacquier, Alain ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

In vitro selection; Ribozyme kinetics; RNA folding; Self splicing

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTRON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESTERIFICATION; EXONS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031779553     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980165     Document Type: Article

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