Probing the role of a secondary structure element at the 5′- and 3′-splice sites in group I intron self-splicing: The Tetrahymena L-16 ScaI ribozyme reveals a new role of the G·U pair in self-splicing

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4861-4875

  Karbstein, Katrin ^a,b   Lee, Jihee ^a   Herschlag, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RNA;

RIBOZYMES; SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SELF-SPLICING;

ENZYMES;

GUANOSINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EXON; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GUANOSINE; KINETICS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; URACIL;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 34247492087     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi062169g     Document Type: Article

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