The genomic HDV ribozyme utilizes a previously unnoticed U-turn motif to accomplish fast site-specific catalysis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1933-1946

  Sefcikova, Jana ^a   Krasovska, Maryna V ^b,c   Šponer, Jiří ^b   Walter, Nils G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; RIBOZYME; TERBIUM; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL; VIRUS RNA; MAGNESIUM; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; WILD TYPE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; LOTUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, VIRAL; TERBIUM; URACIL;

EID: 34247868242     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1104     Document Type: Article

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