Fluorescence and solution NMR study of the active site of a 160-kDa group II intron ribozyme

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1693-1707

  Gumbs, Orlando H ^a,b   Padgett, Richard A ^a   Dayie, Kwaku T ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b USB Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence gel shift assay; NMR chemical shift perturbation analysis; P. littoralis ribosomal RNA intron; RNA structure and catalysis

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HYDROLASE; RIBOZYME; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; INTRON; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALGAE, BROWN; BINDING SITES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; HEAT; INTRONS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SOLUTIONS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS;

EID: 33748163502     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.137006     Document Type: Article

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