Hammerhead ribozyme kinetics

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 875-889

  Stage Zimmermann, Tracy K ^a,b   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic RNA; RNA conformations

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031828144     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980876     Document Type: Review

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