Engineered allosteric ribozymes that respond to specific divalent metal ions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 622-631

  Zivarts, Maris ^a   Liu, Yong ^a,b   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM; CADMIUM; CALCIUM ION; COBALT; DIVALENT CATION; DYSPROSIUM; FERROUS ION; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; METAL ION; NICKEL; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RUTHENIUM; STRONTIUM; ZINC ION; METAL; RIBOZYME;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SELECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, DIVALENT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 13844315455     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki182     Document Type: Article

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