Ribozyme catalysis from the major groove of group II intron domain 5

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 433-441

  Konforti, Boyana B ^a   Abramovitz, Dana L ^a   Duarte, Carlos M ^a   Karpeisky, Alex ^b   Beigelman, Leonid ^b   Pyle, Anna Marie ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b Sirna Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; INTRON; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING;

BINDING SITES; INTRONS; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 0031991610     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80043-X     Document Type: Article

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