Site-specific isotope labeling of long RNA for structural and mechanistic studies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kawahara, Ikumi ^a,b   Haruta, Kaichiro ^a   Ashihara, Yuta ^a   Yamanaka, Daichi ^a   Kuriyama, Mituhiro ^a   Toki, Naoko ^a   Kondo, Yoshinori ^a   Teruya, Kenta ^c   Ishikawa, Junya ^d   Furuta, Hiroyuki ^d   Ikawa, Yoshiya ^d   Kojima, Chojiro ^b,e   Tanaka, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; NITROGEN 15; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ENZYME MECHANISM; INTRON; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA;

DNA LIGASES; INTRONS; ISOTOPE LABELING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84855274913     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr951     Document Type: Article

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