Effect of pseudouridylation on the structure and activity of the catalytically essential P6.1 hairpin in human telomerase RNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6746-6756

  Kim, Nak Kyoon ^a   Theimer, Carla A ^a,c   Mitchell, James R ^b,d   Collins, Kathleen ^b   Feigon, Juli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOCATALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; TELOMERASE;

EID: 78049409724     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq525     Document Type: Article

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