Domain 5 binds near a highly conserved dinucleotide in the joiner linking domains 2 and 3 of a group II intron

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-166

  Podar, Mircea ^a,c   Zhuo, Jin ^b   Zhang, Mincheng ^b,d   Franzen, James S ^b   Perlman, Philip S ^a   Peebles, Craig L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4 thiouridine; Active site; Group II intron; Photocrosslink; Ribozyme; RNA tertiary structure

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; RIBOZYME; RNA; THIOURIDINE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031939815     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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