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Molecular crowding overcomes the destabilizing effects of mutations in a bacterial ribozyme.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2015
Lee Hui-Ting, Kilburn Duncan, Behrouzi Reza, Briber Robert M, Woodson Sarah A
Abstract excerpt
The native structure of the Azoarcus group I ribozyme is stabilized by the cooperative formation of tertiary interactions between double helical domains. Thus, even single mutations that break this network of tertiary interactions reduce ribozyme activity in physiological Mg(2+) concentrations. H...
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