Newt satellite 2 transcripts self-cleave by using an extended hammerhead structure.

doi:10.1128/mcb.11.12.6109-6115.1991

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Newt satellite 2 transcripts self-cleave by using an extended hammerhead structure.

Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Dec 1991

Pabón-Peña L M, Zhang Y, Epstein L M

Abstract excerpt

Synthetic transcripts of satellite 2 DNA from newts undergo self-catalyzed, site-specific cleavage in vitro. Cleavage occurs within a domain that is similar to the hammerhead domain used by a number of self-cleaving, infectious plant RNAs. The newt hammerhead has a potentially unstable structure...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
DNA, Satellite
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation
RNA Splicing
RNA, Messenger
Salamandridae
Templates, Genetic
Transcription, Genetic

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