Three critical hydrogen bonds determine the catalytic activity of the Diels-Alderase ribozyme

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1318-1330

  Kraut, Stefanie ^a   Bebenroth, Dirk ^a   Nierth, Alexander ^a   Kobitski, Andrei Y ^b   Nienhaus, G Ulrich ^b,c   Jäschke, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELS ALDERASE RIBOZYME; RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIELS ALDER REACTION; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING;

BIOCATALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BONDING; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, CATALYTIC;

ALNUS;

EID: 84856813184     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr812     Document Type: Article

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