The structure-function dilemma of the hammerhead ribozyme

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 34, Issue , 2005, Pages 415-440

  Blount, Kenneth F ^a   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Conformation; Dynamics; Enzymology; RNA

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; RNA;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ISOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 19644363114     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.34.122004.184428     Document Type: Review

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