Ribozymes: The characteristics and properties of catalytic RNAs

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-275

  Tanner, N Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Catalytic RNA; Gene therapy; Review; Ribozyme; Self cleaving RNA; Self splicing intron

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME;

AMPHIBIA; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

AMPHIBIA; DELTA VIRUS; EUKARYOTA; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; PROKARYOTA; SATELLITE VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; VIROIDS;

EID: 0032940932     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(99)00007-8     Document Type: Review

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