Recent insights on RNA folding mechanisms from catalytic RNA

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 796-808

  Woodson, S A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Folding kinetics; Group I intron; Ribozyme; RNA folding; RNA structure; RNase P; Transcription elongation; Translation attenuation

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC REGULATION; INTRON; KINETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; RNA PROBE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA STABILITY; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034043484     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050042     Document Type: Review

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