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Design of a highly reactive HDV ribozyme sequence uncovers facilitation of RNA folding by alternative pairings and physiological ionic strength.
Journal of molecular biology - 13 Aug 2004
Brown Trevor S, Chadalavada Durga M, Bevilacqua Philip C
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) ribozyme is a self-cleaving RNA that resides in the HDV genome and regulates its replication. The native fold of the ribozyme is complex, having two pseudoknots. Earlier work implicated four non-native pairings in slowing pseudoknot formation: Alt 1, Alt 2, Alt 3, and Alt P1. The goal of the present work was design of a kinetically simplified and maximally reactive construct for in...
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