Helix-length compensation studies reveal the adaptability of the VS ribozyme architecture

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2284-2293

  Lacroix Labonté, Julie ^a   Girard, Nicolas ^a   Lemieux, Sébastien ^b   Legault, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VARIANT; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARKUD SATELLITE RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA STRUCTURE;

ENDORIBONUCLEASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 84858396197     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1018     Document Type: Article

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