Substrate requirements for a novel archaeal endonuclease that cleaves within the 5' external transcribed spacer of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius precursor rRNA

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1373-1385

  Russell, Anthony G ^a   Ebhardt, Holger ^a   Dennis, Patrick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0345151825     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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