A ribozyme composed of only two different nucleotides

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6917, 2002, Pages 841-844

  Reader, John S ^a   Joyce, Gerald F ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MACROMOLECULES;

URACIL NUCLEOTIDE;

RNA;

2,6 DIAMINOPURINE; ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; LIGASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA; URACIL;

RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

2-AMINOPURINE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; KINETICS; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; URACIL;

EID: 0037180804     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01185     Document Type: Article

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