Folding of the natural hammerhead ribozyme is enhanced by interaction of auxiliary elements

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 880-888

  Penedo, J Carlos ^a   Wilson, Timothy J ^a   Jayasena, Sumedha D ^a,b   Khvorova, Anastasia ^a,c   Lilley, David M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

^c Dharmacon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

FRET; Metal ions; RNA catalysis; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; METAL ION; RIBOZYME; RNA; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MAGNESIUM; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 1942533453     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5268404     Document Type: Article

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