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Conformational heterogeneity and the determinants of tertiary stabilization in the hammerhead ribozyme from Dolichopoda cave crickets.
RNA biology - 1 Jan 2000
Roychowdhury-Saha Manami, Roychowdhury Sugata, Burke Donald H
Abstract excerpt
Repetitive DNA elements in Dolichopoda cave cricket genomes contain extended hammerhead ribozymes that are functional in adult crickets, but that exhibit very low self-cleavage activity in vitro relative to other extended hammerhead ribozymes. We find that the parental ribozyme tends to misfold into alternate secondary structures in vitro, complicating analysis of contributions by specific nucleotides to activity...
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