Importance of magnesium ions in the mechanism of catalysis by a hammerhead ribozyme: Strictly linear relationship between the ribozyme activity and the concentration of magnesium ions

Magnesium Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 210-217

  Inoue, Atsushi ^a,b   Takagi, Yasuomi ^a   Taira, Kazunari ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hammerhead ribozyme; Magnesium dependency; Mechanism of RNA cleavage reaction; Solvent isotope effect

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA CLEAVAGE; SHARK;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, CATALYTIC;

CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 0242573135     PISSN: 09531424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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