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Prokaryotic Argonautes – variations on the RNA interference theme
Microbial Cell, 2014 The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) has been a major scientific breakthrough. This RNA-guided RNA interference system plays a crucial role in a wide range of regulatory and defense mechanisms in eukaryotes.
John van der Oost +2 more
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Catalytic RNA and RNA Splicing [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1989 The capacity of Watson-Crick base-pair complementarity to direct informational transactions basic to gene expression has long been appreciated. Among RNA molecules, it mediates mRNA-tRNA codon-anticodon pairing and the 16S rRNA-mRNA Shine-Dalgarno interaction.
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Inhibition of Bacterial RNase P RNA by Phenothiazine Derivatives
Biomolecules, 2016 There is a need to identify novel scaffolds and targets to develop new antibiotics. Methylene blue is a phenothiazine derivative, and it has been shown to possess anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal activities.
Shiying Wu +2 more
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RNA ligase ribozymes with a small catalytic core
Scientific Reports, 2023 Catalytic RNAs, or ribozymes, catalyze diverse chemical reactions that could have sustained primordial life in the hypothetical RNA world. Many natural ribozymes and laboratory evolved ribozymes exhibit efficient catalysis mediated by elaborate catalytic
Yoko Nomura, Yohei Yokobayashi
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Structural and biochemical basis for DNA and RNA catalysis by human Topoisomerase 3β
Nature Communications, 2022 The authors revealed novel roles of catalytic residues and divalent metal ions for hsTOP3B, the human RNA topoisomerase, and demonstrated the structural elements that kinetically modulate the DNA and RNA topoisomerase activities of TOP3B.
Xi Yang +4 more
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An Efficient Catalytic DNA that Cleaves L-RNA. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Many DNAzymes have been isolated from synthetic DNA pools to cleave natural RNA (D-RNA) substrates and some have been utilized for the design of aptazyme biosensors for bioanalytical applications.
Kha Tram +3 more
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Catalytic RNA world relics in Dicer RNAs [PDF]
International Journal of Genetics, 2009 RNA interference (RNAi) is a naturally occurring phenomenon of RNA-mediated gene silencing that is highly conserved among multicellular organisms. In the first step of the pathway, long double- stranded RNA molecules are chopped into shorter duplexes with 2 nucleotide overhangs at both 3 ' ends by an endonuclease dubbed Dicer, the structure of which ...
Sayak Ganguli +5 more
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Mutational analysis of Trypanosoma brucei RNA editing ligase reveals regions critical for interaction with KREPA2. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The Trypanosoma brucei parasite causes the vector-borne disease African sleeping sickness. Mitochondrial mRNAs of T. brucei undergo posttranscriptional RNA editing to make mature, functional mRNAs.
Vaibhav Mehta +3 more
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Ratcheted transport and sequential assembly of the yeast telomerase RNP
Cell Reports, 2023 Summary: The telomerase ribonucleoprotein particle (RNP) replenishes telomeric DNA and minimally requires an RNA component and a catalytic protein subunit.
Hannah Neumann +3 more
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Structural insights into the molecular mechanism of the m6A writer complex
eLife, 2016 Methylation of adenosines at the N6 position (m6A) is a dynamic and abundant epitranscriptomic mark that regulates critical aspects of eukaryotic RNA metabolism in numerous biological processes.
Paweł Śledź, Martin Jinek
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