P5abc of the Tetrahymena ribozyme consists of three functionally independent elements

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 837-846

  Naito, Yoshikazu ^a   Shiraishi, Hideaki ^a   Inoue, Tan ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activator; Complex; Group I intron; Tertiary interaction

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TETRAHYMENA; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0031846237     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298972016     Document Type: Article

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