Trials, travails and triumphs: an account of RNA catalysis in RNase P.
Last December marked the 20th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech for their discovery of RNA catalysts in bacterial ribonuclease P (an enzyme catalyzing 5' maturation of tRNAs) and a self-splicing rRNA of Tetrahymena, respectively. Coinciding with the publication of a treatise on RNase P, this review provides a historical narrative, a brief report on our current knowledge, and a discussion of some research prospects on RNase P.
McClain
William H
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Department of Bacteriology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. wmmclain@wisc.edu
Lai
Lien B
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Gopalan
Venkat
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D000818:Animals; D002384:Catalysis; D006801:Humans; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D043262:Ribonuclease P / Q000737:chemistry*
D012313:RNA; D043262:Ribonuclease P