Article
Bases defining an ammonium and magnesium ion-dependent tertiary structure within the large subunit ribosomal RNA.
Journal of molecular biology - 16 Dec 1994
Lu M, Draper D E
Abstract excerpt
A 58 nucleotide RNA derived from a highly conserved domain of the large subunit ribosomal RNA (Escherichia coli 1051 to 1108) has a set of tertiary interactions that is stabilized by NH4+ and Mg2+ in preference to other ions. We have mapped the nucleotides contributing to this structure by examining the thermal denaturation of 25 sequence variants. Where necessary compensatory mutations were made to preserve the...
Topics
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- Cations, Monovalent
- Escherichia coli
- Magnesium
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleic Acid Denaturation
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
- RNA, Bacterial
