Trans-cleaving hammerhead ribozymes with tertiary stabilizing motifs: In vitro and in vivo activity against a structured viroid RNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2432-2444

  Carbonell, Alberto ^a,b   Flores, Ricardo ^a   Gago, Selma ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPLICON; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; VIROID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, VIRAL; VIROIDS;

EGGPLANT LATENT VIROID; PEACH LATENT MOSAIC VIROID; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER VIROID; SPHYRNA; VIROIDS;

EID: 79953675394     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1051     Document Type: Article

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