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Guiding ribozyme cleavage through motif recognition: the mechanism of cleavage site selection by a group ii intron ribozyme.
Journal of molecular biology - 2 Mar 2001
Su L J, Qin P Z, Michels W J, Pyle A M
Abstract excerpt
The mechanism by which group II introns cleave the correct phosphodiester linkage was investigated by studying the reaction of mutant substrates with a ribozyme derived from intron ai5gamma. While fidelity was found to be quite high in most cases, a single mutation on the substrate (+1C) resulted in a dramatic loss of fidelity. When this mutation was combined with a second mutation that induces a bulge in the...
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