Crystal structure of the specificity domain of ribonuclease P

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6924, 2003, Pages 760-764

  Krasilnikov, Andrey S ^a   Yang, Xiaojing ^a   Pan, Tao ^b   Mondragón, Alfonso ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; RNA;

RIBOSOMES;

ENZYMES;

RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037434709     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01386     Document Type: Article

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