Folding intermediates of a self-splicing RNA: Mispairing of the catalytic core

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 597-609

  Pan, Jie ^a   Woodson, Sarah A ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Group I intron; Ribozyme; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; UREA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0032563297     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1901     Document Type: Article

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