Molecular recognition in a trans excision-splicing ribozyme: Non-Watson-Crick base pairs at the 5′ splice site and ωG at the 3′ splice site can play a role in determining the binding register of reaction substrates

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1067-1077

  Baum, Dana A ^a   Sinha, Joy ^a   Testa, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DEGRADATION; RNA; SUBSTRATES;

CRYPTIC SITES; RIBOZYMES; SPLICE SITES; TRANS EXCISION-SPLICING (TES);

ENZYMES;

GUANOSINE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DISSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TETRAHYMENA;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 12344258733     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0482304     Document Type: Article

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