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RNA ligase RtcB splices 3'-phosphate and 5'-OH ends via covalent RtcB-(histidinyl)-GMP and polynucleotide-(3')pp(5')G intermediates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Apr 2012
Chakravarty Anupam K, Subbotin Roman, Chait Brian T, Shuman Stewart
Abstract excerpt
A cherished tenet of nucleic acid enzymology holds that synthesis of polynucleotide 3'-5' phosphodiesters proceeds via the attack of a 3'-OH on a high-energy 5' phosphoanhydride: either a nucleoside 5'-triphosphate in the case of RNA/DNA polymerases or an adenylylated intermediate A(5')pp(5')N--in the case of polynucleotide ligases. RtcB exemplifies a family of RNA ligases implicated in tRNA splicing and repair....
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