Mechanistic analysis of the Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) ribozyme: Methods for RNA preparation, structure mapping, solvent isotope effects, and co-transcriptional cleavage

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 848, Issue , 2012, Pages 21-40

  Chadalavada, Durga M ^a   Cerrone Szakal, Andrea L ^b   Wilcox, Jennifer L ^a   Siegfried, Nathan A ^c   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Co transcriptional RNA folding; pK a; Proton inventory; Sequencing; Solvent isotope

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; ISOTOPE; RIBOZYME; SOLVENT; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

BUFFERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, VIRAL; SOLVENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS;

EID: 84858236151     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-545-9_3     Document Type: Article

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