Visualizing the solvent-inaccessible core of a group II intron ribozyme

EMBO Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2051-2061

  Swisher, Jennifer ^a   Duarte, Carlos M ^a   Su, Linhui Julie ^a   Pyle, Anna Marie ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Hydroxyl radical footprinting; Molecular modeling; RNA folding; Structure

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL GROUP; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INTRON; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0035901549     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.8.2051     Document Type: Article

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