Nucleases: diversity of structure, function and mechanism

W Yang - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Nucleases cleave the phosphodiester bonds of nucleic acids and may be endo or exo,
DNase or RNase, topoisomerases, recombinases, ribozymes, or RNA splicing enzymes. In …

Bacterial ribonucleases and their roles in RNA metabolism

DH Bechhofer, MP Deutscher - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Ribonucleases (RNases) are mediators in most reactions of RNA metabolism. In recent
years, there has been a surge of new information about RNases and the roles they play in …

RNA self-assembly and RNA nanotechnology

WW Grabow, L Jaeger - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nanotechnology's central goal involves the direct control of matter at the
molecular nanometer scale to build nanofactories, nanomachines, and other devices for …

Functional anthology of intrinsic disorder. 1. Biological processes and functions of proteins with long disordered regions

H Xie, S Vucetic, LM Iakoucheva… - Journal of proteome …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Identifying relationships between function, amino acid sequence, and protein structure
represents a major challenge. In this study, we propose a bioinformatics approach that …

Ribozymes, riboswitches and beyond: regulation of gene expression without proteins

A Serganov, DJ Patel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Although various functions of RNA are carried out in conjunction with proteins, some
catalytic RNAs, or ribozymes, which contribute to a range of cellular processes, require little …

Structure of a bacterial ribonuclease P holoenzyme in complex with tRNA

NJ Reiter, A Osterman, A Torres-Larios, KK Swinger… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Ribonuclease (RNase) P is the universal ribozyme responsible for 5′-end tRNA
processing. We report the crystal structure of the Thermotoga maritima RNase P …

Frameshifting RNA pseudoknots: structure and mechanism

DP Giedroc, PV Cornish - Virus research, 2009 - Elsevier
Programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is one of the multiple translational recoding
processes that fundamentally alters triplet decoding of the messenger RNA by the …

Of proteins and RNA: the RNase P/MRP family

O Esakova, AS Krasilnikov - Rna, 2010 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Nuclear ribonuclease (RNase) P is a ubiquitous essential ribonucleoprotein complex, one of
only two known RNA-based enzymes found in all three domains of life. The RNA component …

Bacterial RNase P: a new view of an ancient enzyme

AV Kazantsev, NR Pace - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract Ribonuclease P (RNase P) is a ubiquitous endonuclease that catalyses the
maturation of the 5′ end of transfer RNA (tRNA). Although it carries out a biochemically …

Cryo-EM structure of the human ribonuclease P holoenzyme

J Wu, S Niu, M Tan, C Huang, M Li, Y Song, Q Wang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Ribonuclease (RNase) P is a ubiquitous ribozyme that cleaves the 5′ leader from
precursor tRNAs. Here, we report cryo-electron microscopy structures of the human nuclear …