Two independently selected capping ribozymes share similar substrate requirements

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1949-1958

  Zaher, Hani S ^a   Watkins, R Ammon ^a   Unrau, Peter J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Mechanistic invariant; Ribozyme; RNA capping; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

6.17 RIBOZYME; CALCIUM ION; MAGNESIUM ION; METAL ION; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; PYROPHOSPHATE; RIBOZYME; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CAPPING; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA CAP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, CATALYTIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751115760     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.131306     Document Type: Article

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