Effect of transcription on folding of the Tetrahymena ribozyme

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 722-733

  Heilman Miller, Susan L ^a,b   Woodson, Sarah A ^b,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

E. coli RNA polymerase; Group I intron; In vitro transcription; Native gel electrophoresis; RNA structure; Sequential folding; T7 RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BASE PAIRING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0038475911     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5200903     Document Type: Article

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