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ArticleBiochemistry2006

Adenosine is inherently favored as the branch-site RNA nucleotide in a structural context that resembles natural RNA splicing.

Elena Zelin, Yangming Wang, Scott K Silverman

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Article in Biochemistry, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Site-Selective Modification and Labeling of Native RNA.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  8. DNA-catalyzed serine side chain reactivity and selectivity.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2010
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  10. Use of deoxyribozymes in RNA research.Methods in enzymology · 2009
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elena ZelinDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Yangming Wang
Scott K Silverman

Funding

Deoxyribozymes that ligate RNAR01GM065966 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI SILVERMAN, SCOTT K · 2003 to 2016
$4.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM-65966NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065966
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously used in vitro selection to identify the 7S11 deoxyribozyme, which catalyzes formation of 2',5'-branched RNA using a branch-site adenosine nucleophile and a 5'-triphosphate electrophile. An unanswered question is whether the use of branch-site adenosine is inherently preferred or a chance event during the particular selection experiment. Here we have found that deoxyribozymes newly selected to use uridine as the branch-site RNA nucleotide in a structural context that resembles natural RNA splicing instead prefer a branch-site adenosine, although adenosine was never available during the selection itself. Our results support a chemical basis for nature's choice of the branch-site nucleotide, which is almost always adenosine in group II introns and the spliceosome.

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RNA SplicingAdenosineBase SequenceDNA, CatalyticModels, BiologicalMolecular Sequence DataNucleotidesPurinesRNAStructure-Activity RelationshipUridineAdenosineDNA, CatalyticNucleotidesPurinesRNAUridine

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PMID16503631
PMCPMC2515823

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