Intermolecular interaction between a branching ribozyme and associated homing endonuclease mRNA

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 392, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 491-499

  Birgisdottir, Ása B ^a   Nielsen, Henrik ^b   Beckert, Bertrand ^b,c   Masquida, Benoît ^c   Johansen, Steinar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Didymium GIR1; gene expression; group I intron; ribozyme; RNA tertiary interaction

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENDONUCLEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER;

DIDYMIUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79958040451     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2011.055     Document Type: Article

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