Examination of the folding pathway of the antigenomic hepatitis delta virus ribozyme reveals key interactions of the L3 loop

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-54

  Reymond, Cédric ^b   Ouellet, Jonathan ^a,b   Bisaillon, Martin ^b   Perreault, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross linking; Folding pathway; Hepatitis delta virus; Ribozyme; RNA structure function

Indexed keywords

4 THIOURIDINE; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DERIVATIVE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; GENE MAPPING; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE;

HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC;

HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS;

EID: 33845909854     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.263407     Document Type: Article

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