Sequence complementarity-driven nonenzymatic ligation of RNA

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2994-3003

  Pino, Samanta ^a   Costanzo, Giovanna ^b   Giorgi, Alessandra ^c   Di Mauro, Ernesto ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC REACTIONS; CHEMICAL COMPLEXITY; COFACTORS; COMPLEMENTARY SEQUENCES; INITIAL POPULATION; NON-ENZYMATIC; RNA MOLECULES; SHANNON INFORMATION;

LAKES; METAL IONS; RNA;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CYCLIC GMP; METAL ION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE I; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE A;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WATER;

EID: 79953680769     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi101981z     Document Type: Article

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