Crystal structure of an RNA polymerase ribozyme in complex with an antibody fragment

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1580, 2011, Pages 2918-2928

  Piccirilli, Joseph A ^a   Koldobskaya, Yelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Ligase ribozyme; RNA world

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052946333     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0144     Document Type: Review

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