Pyrimidine motif triple helix in the Kluyveromyces lactis telomerase RNA pseudoknot is essential for function in vivo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 10970-10975

  Cash, Darian D ^a   Cohen Zontag, Osnat ^b   Kim, Nak Kyoon ^a   Shefer, Kinneret ^b   Brown, Yogev ^b   Ulyanov, Nikolai B ^c   Tzfati, Yehuda ^b   Feigon, Juli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hoogsteen; RNA structure; RNA triplex; Yeast

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TRIPLE HELIX;

HOOGSTEEN; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRIPLEX; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PYRIMIDINES; RNA; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERASE;

FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 84879705616     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309590110     Document Type: Article

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