Recent advances in the elucidation of the mechanisms of action of ribozymes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1815-1834

  Takagi, Yasuomi ^a   Warashina, Masaki ^a   Stec, Wojciech J ^b   Yoshinari, Koichi ^a   Taira, Kazunari ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b CENTRE OF MOLECULAR AND MACROMOLECULAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; HAIRPIN RIBOZYME; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; METAL ION; POLYAMINE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARKUD SATTELITE RIBOZYME; METAL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EXON; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA CLEAVAGE; TETRAHYMENA; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

CATALYSIS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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