A ribozyme selected from variants of U6 snRNA promotes 2′,5′-branch formation

RNA

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-43

  Tuschl, Thomas ^a,b,c   Sharp, Phillip A ^a   Bartel, David P ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vitro selection; RNA catalysis; Splicing

Indexed keywords

ETIDRONIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; INTRONS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMATINA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035040190     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838201001510     Document Type: Article

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