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Sequence effects on RNA bulge-induced helix bending and a conserved five-nucleotide bulge from the group I introns.
Biochemistry - 10 Sept 1996
Luebke K J, Tinoco I
Abstract excerpt
Bulge loops introduce bends in RNA double helices. Thus, a role for bulge loops in the tertiary folding of RNA is to orient helical elements. The location, size, and sequence of a five-nucleotide bulge are conserved in many of the self-splicing group I introns. We have used gel electrophoretic analysis of helix bending to test the hypothesis that this bulge loop is conserved to control the angle between the...
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