RNA self-processing towards changed topology and sequence oligomerization

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 743-746

  Pieper, Stefan ^a,b   Vauléon, Stéphanie ^a   Müller, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Cleavage; Cyclic RNA; Ligation; Ribozyme; RNA world

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 34250686562     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2007.067     Document Type: Article

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