A nickel complex cleaves uridine in folded RNA structures: Application to E. coli tmRNA and related engineered molecules

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 577-587

  Hickerson, Robyn P ^a   Watkins Sims, Cristi D ^b   Burrows, Cynthia J ^a   Atkins, John F ^b   Gesteland, Raymond F ^b,c   Felden, Brice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nickel complex; Pseudoknot; RNA structure; Structural probing; tmRNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; NICKEL COMPLEX; SULFATE; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA PROBE; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032511223     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1813     Document Type: Article

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