Ethidium-dependent uncoupling of substrate binding and cleavage by Escherichia coli ribonuclease III

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1915-1925

  Calin Jageman, Irina ^a   Amarasinghe, Asoka K ^a,b   Nicholson, Allen W ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL RNA; CYTOSINE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; GUANINE; INTERCALATING AGENT; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBOSOME RNA; ENZYME INHIBITOR; ETHIDIUM; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA, DOUBLE STRANDED;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; LASER; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA CLEAVAGE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYMOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHIDIUM; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0035340320     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.9.1915     Document Type: Article

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