Primitive templated catalysis of a peptide ligation by self-folding RNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2574-2583

  Kashiwagi, Norimasa ^a   Furuta, Hiroyuki ^a   Ikawa, Yoshiya ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ENDONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 65849123798     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp111     Document Type: Article

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