Substrate specificity and reaction kinetics of an X-motif ribozyme

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 688-697

  Lazarev, Denis ^a   Puskarz, Izabela ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineered ribozyme; In vitro selection; Mechanism; Self cleavage; Transesterification

Indexed keywords

METAL ION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CLEAVAGE; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, CATALYTIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038475923     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2600503     Document Type: Article

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