Molecular BiologyNucleic Acids ResearchPeer-reviewed
Cutting in-line with iron: ribosomal function and non-oxidative RNA cleavage
Rebecca Guth-Metzler, Marcus S. Bray, Moran Frenkel‐Pinter…·Loren Dean Williams
The paper demonstrates that Fe2+ cleaves RNA via a non-oxidative in-line mechanism, is more reactive than Mg2+, and is stably associated with ribosomes under anaerobic conditions.
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