Biophysical and biochemical investigations of RNA catalysis in the hammerhead ribozyme

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-284

  Scott, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; METAL ION; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

BIOPHYSICS; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITOR COMPLEX; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ISOMERISM; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPHYSICS; KINETICS; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 0033325108     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003358350000353X     Document Type: Review

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