One RNA plays three roles to provide catalytic activity to a group I intron lacking an endogenous internal guide sequence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3981-3989

  Vaidya, Nilesh ^a   Lehman, Niles ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDE RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AZOARCUS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INTERNAL GUIDE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANS SPLICING;

AZOARCUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, GUIDE;

AZOARCUS;

EID: 67651154406     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp271     Document Type: Article

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