A peripheral element assembles the compact core structure essential for group I intron self-splicing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4602-4611

  Xiao, Mu ^a   Li, Tingting ^a   Yuan, Xiaoyan ^a   Shang, Yuan ^a   Wang, Fu ^a   Chen, Shoudeng ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MAGNESIUM ION; RIBOZYME; SELF SPLICING RIBOSOMAL RNA; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESTERIFICATION; BASE PAIRING; CANDIDA; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESTERIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

CANDIDA;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESTERIFICATION; INTRONS; MAGNESIUM; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 23844516852     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki770     Document Type: Article

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