The chemical basis of adenosine conservation throughout the Tetrahymena ribozyme

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 498-519

  Ortoleva Donnelly, Lori ^a   Szewczak, Alexander A ^a   Gutell, Robin R ^b   Strobel, Scott A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

A platform; G binding; Group I intron; Interference mapping; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA; THIONUCLEOTIDES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0031967099     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980086     Document Type: Article

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