New catalytic structures from an existing ribozyme

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 994-1000

  Curtis, Edward A ^a   Bartel, David P ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYLASE; ENZYME VARIANT; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 32644440905     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1003     Document Type: Article

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