Kinetic and functional analysis of the small RNA methyltransferase HEN1: The catalytic domain is essential for preferential modification of duplex RNA

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1935-1942

  Vilkaitis, Giedrius ^a   Plotnikova, Alexandra ^a   Klimašauskas, Saulius ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

2 O ribose methylation; Enzyme kinetics; Methyltransferase; microRNA; RNA modification; siRNA

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HEN1; RNA; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HEN1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MICRORNA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA PRIMERS; KINETICS; METHYLATION; MICRORNAS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 77957300063     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2281410     Document Type: Article

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