Tight binding of the 5' exon to domain I of a group II self-splicing intron requires completion of the intron active site

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1025-1037

  Costa, Maria ^a,b   Michel, François ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5' exon footprints; Group II intron; Intron exon interactions; Methylation probing; Ribozyme

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DIMETHYL SULFATE; DNA; RIBOZYME;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EXONS; INTRONS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS;

ALGAE; PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS;

EID: 0033558318     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.4.1025     Document Type: Article

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