The genomic HDV ribozyme utilizes a previously unnoticed U-turn motif to accomplish fast site-specific catalysis
The genome of the human hepatitis delta virus (HDV) harbors a self-cleaving catalytic RNA motif, the genomic HDV ribozyme, whose crystal structure shows the dangling nucleotides 5′ of the cleavage site projecting away from the catalytic core. This 5′-sequence contains a clinically conserved U − 1 th...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874588/ |