Sequence dependence of substrate recognition and cleavage by yeast RNase III

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 985-1000

  Lamontagne, Bruno ^a   Ghazal, Ghada ^a   Lebars, Isabelle ^b   Yoshizawa, Satoko ^b   Fourmy, Dominique ^b   Elela, Sherif Abou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES NATURELLES   (France)

Author keywords

DsRNA; Ribonucleases; RNA recognition; RNase III; Rnt1p

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; YEAST;

EID: 0037432527     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00231-6     Document Type: Article

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