Monitoring intermediate folding states of the td group I intron in vivo

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 5281-5291

  Waldsich, Christina ^a   Masquida, Benoît ^a   Westhof, Eric ^a   Schroeder, Renée ^a  

^a Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

Author keywords

DMS probing in vivo; in vivo folding; Loop E motif; RNA structure modeling; td group I intron

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFATE; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0036792714     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf504     Document Type: Article

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