Defining functional groups, core structural features and inter-domain tertiary contacts essential for group II intron self-splicing: A NAIM analysis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 7091-7104

  Boudvillain, Marc ^a   Pyle, Anna Marie ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Interference; Ribozyme; RNA; Structure

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; GUANOSINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0032404048     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.23.7091     Document Type: Article

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