Chapter 7 New Approaches to Understanding Double-Stranded RNA Processing by Ribonuclease III. Purification and Assays of Homodimeric and Heterodimeric Forms of RNase III from Bacterial Extremophiles and Mesophiles

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 447, Issue , 2008, Pages 119-129

  Meng, Wenzhao ^a   Nicholson, Rhonda H ^b   Nathania, Lilian ^a   Pertzev, Alexandre V ^a   Nicholson, Allen W ^a,b  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; RIBONUCLEASE III;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ASSAY; BACTERIUM; CELL INCLUSION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INCLUSION BODIES; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 58249086416     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02207-6     Document Type: Review

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