A natural fast-cleaving branching ribozyme from the amoeboflagellate Naegleria pringsheimi

RNA Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Tang, Yunjia ^a   Nielsen, Henrik ^b   Birgisdottir, Åsa Birna ^a   Johansen, Steinar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Branching ribozyme; mRNA lariat capping; Naegleria pringsheimi; NaGIR1

Indexed keywords

ENZYME VARIANT; PROTEIN GIR1; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EXORIBONUCLEASE; GIR1 RIBOZYME; RIBONUCLEASE R;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIDYMUM IRIDIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FLAGELLATE; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTATION; MYXOGASTRIA; NAEGLERIA PRINGSHEIMI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NAEGLERIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

DIDYMIUM; DIDYMIUM IRIDIS; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA PRINGSHEIMI;

BASE SEQUENCE; EXORIBONUCLEASES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAEGLERIA; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 81255176950     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.8.6     Document Type: Article

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