Pistol ribozyme adopts a pseudoknot fold facilitating site-specific in-line cleavage

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 702-708

  Ren, Aiming ^a,b   Vušurovic, Nikola ^c,d   Gebetsberger, Jennifer ^c,d   Gao, Pu ^b   Juen, Michael ^c,d   Kreutz, Christoph ^c,d   Micura, Ronald ^c,d   Patel, Dinshaw J ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d Center of Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; BASE; DIVALENT CATION; ENV25 PROTEIN; PISTOL RIBOZYME; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; RNA FOLDING;

BIOCATALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84978149857     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2125     Document Type: Article

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