Three conserved guanosines approach the reaction site in native and minimal hammerhead ribozymes

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 7140-7147

  Lambert, Dominic ^a   Heckman, Joyce E ^a   Burke, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CROSSLINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

ACID-BASE CATALYSIS; NUCLEOBASES; PYRROLOCYTIDINE; RIBOZYME;

ENZYMES;

2,6 DIAMINOPURINE; 4 THIOURIDINE; CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; GUANOSINE; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; PYRROLOCYTIDINE; RNA; THIOGUANOSINE; THIOURIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GUANOSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

SPHYRNA;

EID: 33745056478     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052457x     Document Type: Article

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