Enhancing the Second Step of the Trans Excision-Splicing Reaction of a Group I Ribozyme by Exploiting P9.0 and P10 for Intermolecular Recognition

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4323-4331

  Bell, Michael A ^a   Sinha, Joy ^a   Johnson, Ashley K ^a   Testa, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYMES; RNA;

SUBSTRATE BINDING;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

NUCLEOSIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DISSOCIATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EXON; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; P10 HELIX; P9.0 HELIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANS EXCISION SPLICING;

ANIMALS; EXONS; INTRONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSIDES; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TETRAHYMENA; TRANS-SPLICING;

EID: 1842479239     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi035874n     Document Type: Article

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