High-affinity binding site for a group II intron-encoded reverse transcriptase/maturase within a stem-loop structure in the intron RNA

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1433-1443

  Watanabe, Kazuo ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ribozyme; RNA structure; RNA protein interaction; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; INTRONS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 4344674623     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7730104     Document Type: Article

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