Sequence-dependent structural variations of hammerhead RNA enzymes
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Sequence-dependent structural variations of hammerhead RNA enzymes.
The discovery of in vivo catalytic activity for the hammerhead RNA self-cleaving domain has led to the development of a new class of sequence-specific RNA endonucleases. Two such ribozymes have been synthesized using in vitro transcription with T7 polymerase and their structures have been studied by optical spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance and nondenaturing gel electrophoresis. These da...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.5.1103