Structural Rearrangements Linked to Global Folding Pathways of the Azoarcus Group I Ribozyme

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1167-1178

  Chauhan, Seema ^a   Behrouzi, Reza ^b   Rangan, Prashanth ^b   Woodson, Sarah A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 aminopurine; ribozyme; RNA folding; stopped flow fluorescence; time resolved footprinting

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; ACETIC ACID; DOCKING PROTEIN; EDETIC ACID; FERROUS ION; MAGNESIUM; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; AZOARCUS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE;

AZOARCUS;

EID: 60149088502     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.075     Document Type: Article

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