Real ribozymes suggest a relaxed error threshold

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1008-1011

  Kun, Ádám ^a,b   Santos, Mauro ^c   Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 25144450882     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1621     Document Type: Article

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