High hydrostatic pressure approach proves RNA catalytic activity without magnesium.

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Summary

It is shown that hammerhead ribozyme specifically cleaves RNA substrate at HHP in the absence of Mg(2+), which points out that the hydrolytic activity of nucleic acid depends on proper tertiary structure of a complex with a substrate.

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article
Published
2007-06-01
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Keywords

Deoxyribozyme, Nucleic acid, Ribozyme, RNA, Chemistry

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