Ubiquitous presence of the hammerhead ribozyme motif along the tree of life

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1943-1950

  De La Peña, Marcos ^a   García Robles, Inmaculada ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

RNA world; Satellite DNA; Three helical junction; Viroid

Indexed keywords

HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CHROMALVEOLATA; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TREE OF LIFE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIA; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CNIDARIA; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMALVEOLATA; CNIDARIA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; OOMYCETES; PLANTAE; TRACHEOPHYTA; VIROIDS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CNIDARIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; METAGENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OOMYCETES; PLANTS; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 77956229148     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2130310     Document Type: Article

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