Self-association of adenine-dependent hairpin ribozymes

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-182

  Li, Yan Li ^a   Maurel, Marie Christine ^a   Ebel, Christine ^b   Vergne, Jacques ^a   Pipich, Vitaliy ^c   Zaccai, Giuseppe ^b,d  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

Analytical centrifugation; Neutron scattering; RNA enzyme dimers

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DIMER; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CENTRIFUGATION; DISSOCIATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ADENINE; DIMERIZATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RNA, CATALYTIC; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 38149006279     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-007-0213-8     Document Type: Article

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