Evolution of an enzyme from a noncatalytic nucleic acid sequence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gysbers, Rachel ^a,b   Tram, Kha ^a   Gu, Jimmy ^a   Li, Yingfu ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBOZYME; ENZYME; RNA;

ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CATTLE; DNA, CATALYTIC; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 84934903518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11405     Document Type: Article

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