Ribozymes
Table of Content
1 Introduction
Eric Westhof
2 Characterization of Hammerhead Ribozyme Reactions
Anne Kalweit, Rita Przybilski, Carsten Seehafer, Marcos de la Peña and Christian Hammann
3 Mechanistic Analysis of the Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) Ribozyme: Methods for RNA Preparation, Structure Mapping, Solvent Isotope Effects, and Co-transcriptional Cleavage
Durga M. Chadalavada, Andrea L. Cerrone-Szakal, Jennifer L. Wilcox, Nathan A. Siegfried, and Philip C. Bevilacqua
4 Kinetic Characterization of Hairpin Ribozyme Variants
Bettina Appel, Thomas Marschall, Anne Strahland, and Sabine Müller
5 Characterization of RNase P RNA Activity
Markus Gößringer, Dominik Helmecke and Roland K. Hartmann
6 Group I Intron Ribozymes
HENRIK NIELSEN
7 Kinetic Characterization of Group II Intron Folding and Splicing
Olga Fedorova
8 Mechanism and Distribution of glmS Ribozymes
Phillip J. McCown, Wade C. Winkler and Ronald R. Breaker
9 Structure-based Search and in vitro Analysis of Self-cleaving Ribozymes
Randi M. Jimenez and Andrej Lupták
10 Discovery of RNA Motifs using a Computational Pipeline that Allows Insertions in Paired Regions and Filtering of Candidate Sequences
Randi M. Jimenez, Ladislav Rampásek, Broňa Brejová, Tomás Vinař, Andrej Lupták
11 Crystallographic Analysis of Small Ribozymes and Riboswitches
Geoffrey M. Lippa, Joseph A. Liberman, Jermaine L. Jenkins, Jolanta Krucinska, Mohammad Salim, and Joseph E. Wedekind
12 Functional Dynamics of RNA Ribozymes Studied by NMR Spectroscopy
Boris Fürtig, Janina Buck, Christian Richter and Harald Schwalbe
13 Deoxyribozyme-based, Semisynthetic Access to Stable Peptidyl-tRNAs Exemplified by tRNAVal Carrying a Macrolide Antibiotic Resistance Peptide
Dagmar Graber, Krista Trappl, Jessica Steger, Anna-Skrollan Geiermann, Lukas Rigger, Holger Moroder1, Norbert Polacek and Ronald Micura
14 Probing Functions of the Ribosomal Peptidyl Transferase Center
by Nucleotide Analog Interference
Matthias D Erlacher, Norbert Polacek
15 Single Molecule FRET Characterization of Large Ribozyme Folding
Lucia Cardo, Krishanthi S. Karunatilaka, David Rueda and Roland K. Sigel
16 Metal Ion-RNA Interactions Studied via Multinuclear NMR
Daniela Donghi and Roland K. Sigel
17 Analysis of Catalytic RNA Structure and Function by Nucleotide Analog Interference Mapping
Soumitra Basu, Mark J. Morris, and Catherine Pazsint
18 In Vitro Selection of Metal-Ion-Selective DNAzymes
Hannah E. Ihms and Yi Lu
19 In vitro Selection of Allosteric Ribozymes
Nicolas Piganeau
20 Screening Effective Target Sites on mRNA: A Ribozyme Library Approach
Hoshang J. Unwalla and John J. Rossi
21 A Computational Approach to Predi
