A tertiary interaction that links active-site domains to the 5' splice site of a group II intron

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6793, 2000, Pages 315-318

  Boudvillaln, Marc ^a,b   De Lencastre, Alexandre ^a   Pyle, Anna Marle ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SPLICEOSOME;

BASE PAIRING; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INTRONS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0034691515     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018589     Document Type: Article

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