New classes of self-cleaving ribozymes revealed by comparative genomics analysis

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 606-610

  Weinberg, Zasha ^a   Kim, Peter B ^a   Chen, Tony H ^a   Li, Sanshu ^a   Harris, Kimberly A ^a   Lünse, Christina E ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; SPACER DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; DNA TEMPLATE; GENOMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBSERVED RATE CONSTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; ALGORITHM; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEOLYSIS; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84937399217     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1846     Document Type: Article

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