Adenosine is inherently favored as the branch-site RNA nucleotide in a structural context that resembles natural RNA splicing

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2767-2771

  Zelin, Elena ^a   Wang, Yangming ^a   Silverman, Scott K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BRANCH-SITE NUCLEOTIDE; DEOXYRIBOZYMES; ELECTROPHILE; NATURAL RNA SPLICING; RNA NUCLEOTIDE;

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CATALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

RNA;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; DEOXYRIBOZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ADENOSINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, CATALYTIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PURINES; RNA; RNA SPLICING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; URIDINE;

EID: 33644688620     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052499l     Document Type: Article

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