A widespread self-cleaving ribozyme class is revealed by bioinformatics

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-60

  Roth, Adam ^a   Weinberg, Zasha ^a   Chen, Andy G Y ^a   Kim, Peter B ^a   Ames, Tyler D ^a,b   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Phosplatin Therapeutics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; METALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84891008536     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1386     Document Type: Article

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