In vitro selection of RNAs with increased tertiary structure stability

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1119-1129

  Juneau, Kara ^a   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnesium ion; Nondenaturing gel electrophoresis; Ribozyme; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS;

TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0032842642     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135583829999074X     Document Type: Article

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