Destabilizing effect of an rRNA stem-loop on an attenuator hairpin in the 5' exon of the Tetrahymena pre-rRNA

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 901-914

  Cao, Yong ^a   Woodson, Sarah A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Group I intron; RNA structure; Self splicing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0031828145     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980621     Document Type: Article

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