Characterization of the trans Watson-Crick GU base pair located in the catalytic core of the antigenomic HDV ribozyme

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lévesque, Dominique ^a   Reymond, Cédric ^a   Perreault, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WATSON'S THEORY OF CARING;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CATIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84863107506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040309     Document Type: Article

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