Viroids with hammerhead ribozymes: Some unique structural and functional aspects with respect to other members of the group

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 849-854

  Flores, Ricardo ^a   Navarro, José Antonio ^a   De La Peña, Marcos ^a   Navarro, Beatriz ^a   Ambrós, Silvia ^a   Vera, Antonio ^b  

^a Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalytic RNAs; Hammerhead structures; Rolling circle replication; Self cleavage

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; PLANT RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA LIGASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIROID; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANT VIRUSES; RNA, CATALYTIC; VIROIDS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; CHRYSANTHEMUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM CHLOROTIC MOTTLE VIROID; FUNGI; PERSEA AMERICANA; PRUNUS PERSICA; VIROIDS;

EID: 0032847001     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.104     Document Type: Review

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