A base triple in the Tetrahymena group I core affects the reaction equilibrium via a threshold effect

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1730-1739

  Karbstein, Katrin ^a,c   Tang, Kuo Hsiang ^a   Herschlag, Daniel ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Base triple; Catalysis; Conformational changes; Group I intron; RNA structure; Threshold effects

Indexed keywords

L 21 SCAI RIBOZYME; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; EXON; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; INTRONS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

PHOCIDAE; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 7044220277     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7118104     Document Type: Article

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