Formation of the P1.1 pseudoknot is critical for both the cleavage activity and substrate specificity of an antigenomic trans-acting hepatitis delta ribozyme

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2087-2096

  Deschênes, Patrick ^a   Ouellet, Jonathan ^a   Perreault, Jonathan ^a   Perreault, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE 2',3' PHOSPHATE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RIBOZYME; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; VIRUS RNA; MAGNESIUM; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CIS ISOMER; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE INACTIVATION; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

CATALYSIS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, VIRAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038476169     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg307     Document Type: Article

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