Ribozyme-related
publications.
Smith,
M.D.
and Collins, R.A. (2011). Use of ribozyme cleavage kinetics to measure
salt-induced changes in solution pH.
Anal. Biochem. 415: 12-20. ScienceDirect
DeAbeu,
D.M., Olive, J.
and Collins, R.A. (2011). Additional roles of a peripheral
loop-loop interaction in the Neurospora
VS ribozyme. Nucl. Acids Res. 39: 6223-6228. PubMed
Smith,
M.D.,
Mehdizadeh, R. Olive, J.E and Collins, R.A. (2008). The ionic
environment determines ribozyme cleavage rate by modulation of nucleobase pKa.
RNA 14: 1942-1949. PubMed
Jaikaran, D.J., Smith,
M.D., Mehdizadeh, R., Olive, J.E. and Collins, R.A.
(2008). An
important role of G638 in the cis-cleavage reaction of the Neurospora
VS ribozyme revealed by a novel nucleotide analog incorporation method. RNA 14: 938-949. PubMed
Smith, M.D. and Collins,
R.A. (2007). Evidence for proton transfer in the rate-limiting step of
fast-cleaving Neurospora VS ribozymes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104: 5818-5823. PubMed
Poon, A. Olive,
J.E., McLaren, M. and Collins, R.A. (2006). Separate
structural features determine the cleavage rate and cation optimum of the
self-cleavage reaction of the Neurospora
VS ribozyme. Biochemistry 45: 13394-13400. Biochemistry
Zamel, R., Poon, A. Jaikaran, D. Andersen, A.,
Olive, J.E., DeAbreu, D.M. and Collins, R.A. (2004).
Exceptionally fast self-cleavage by a Neurospora VS ribozyme. Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci. 101: 1467-1472. PubMed
Hoffmann, B., Mitchell, G.T., Andersen,
A.A., Collins, R.A., and Legault, P. (2003). NMR structure of the
active cleavage site of the Neurospora VS ribozyme. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci 100: 7003-7008.
PubMed
Collins, R.A. (2002). The Neurospora Varkud satellite ribozyme. Biochem Soc Transactions 30(6): 1122-1126. PortlandPress
Zamel, R. and Collins, R.A. (2002). Rearrangement of substrate secondary structure facilitates binding to the Neurospora VS ribozyme. J. Mol. Biol. 324: 903-915. ScienceDirect
Hiley, S. Sood,
V., Fan, J. and Collins, R.A. (2002) 4-thio-U crosslinking
identifies the active site of the VS ribozyme. EMBO J. 17: 4691-4698. PubMed
Sood, V.D. Yekta,
S.and Collins, R.A. (2002). The contribution of 2’-hydroxyls to the
cleavage activity of the Neurospora VS ribozyme. Nucl. Acids Res. 30:
1132-1138. PubMed
Sood, V.D. and Collins,
R.A. (2001). Functional equivalence of the uridine turn and the hairpin as
building blocks of Neurospora VS ribozyme structure. J. Mol. Biol. 313:
1013-1019. ScienceDirect
Hiley, S. and Collins,
R.A. (2001). Rapid formation of a solvent-inaccessible core in the Neurospora VS ribozyme. EMBO J. 20:
5461-5469. PubMed
Andersen, A. and Collins, R.A.
(2001). Intramolecular base pair rearrangement by the kissing interaction of
the Neurospora VS ribozyme. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98 7730-7735. PubMed
Maguire, J.L. and Collins,
R.A. (2001). Effects of cobalt hexammine on folding and self-cleavage of the
Neurospora VS ribozyme, J. Mol. Biol. 309: 45-56. ScienceDirect
Andersen, A. and Collins, R.A.
(2000). Rearrangement of a stable RNA secondary structure during VS ribozyme
catalysis. Molecular Cell 5: 469-478. ScienceDirect
Sood, V.D., Beattie, T.L. and
Collins, R.A. (1998). Identification of phosphates involved in metal binding
and tertiary folding in the core of the Neurospora VS ribozyme. J. Mol. Biol. 282:741-750. ScienceDirect
Olive, J.E. and Collins, R.A.
(1998) Spermine switches a Neurospora VS ribozyme from slow cis-cleavage to
fast trans-cleavage. Biochemistry 37:
6476-6484. Biochemistry
Rastogi, T. and Collins, R.A.
(1998). Smaller, faster VS ribozymes identify the catalytic core of the
Neurospora VS ribozyme. J. Mol. Biol.
277: 215-224. ScienceDirect
Beattie, T.L. and Collins,
(1997). Identification of functional domains in the self-cleaving Neurospora VS
ribozyme using damage selection. J. Mol.
Biol. 267: 830-840. ScienceDirect
Rastogi, T.R., Beattie, T.L.,
Olive, J.E. and Collins, R.A. (1996). A long-range pseudoknot is required for
activity of the Neurospora VS ribozyme.
EMBO J. 15: 2820-2825. PubMed
Olive, J.E., De Abreu, D.M.,
Rastogi, T., Andersen, A.A., Mittermaier, A.K., Beattie, T.L. and Collins, R.A.
(1995). Enhancement of Neurospora VS ribozyme cleavage by tuberactinomycin
antibiotics. EMBO J. 14: 3247-3251. PubMed
Beattie, T., Olive, J.E. and
Collins, R.A. (1995). A secondary structure model for the self-cleaving region
of Neurospora VS RNA. Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci. 92, 4686-4690. PubMed
Kennell, J.C., Saville, B.J.,
Mohr, S., Kuiper, M.T.R., Sabourin, J.R. Collins, R.A. and Lambowitz, A.M.
(1995). The VS catalytic RNA replicates by reverse transcription as a satellite
of a retroplasmid. Genes and Development
9, 294-303. Genes
& Dev
Guo, H.C.T. and Collins, R.A.
(1995). Efficient trans-cleavage of a
stem-loop substrate RNA by a ribozyme derived from Neurospora VS RNA. EMBO J. 14: 368-378. PubMed
Guo, H.C-T., De Abreu, D.M.,
Tillier, E.R.M., Saville, B.J., Olive, J.E. and Collins, R.A. (1993). Nucleotide sequence requirements for
self-cleavage of Neurospora VS RNA. J.
Mol. Biol. 232: 351-361. ScienceDirect
Collins, R.A. and Olive, J.E.
(1993). Reaction conditions and kinetics
of self-cleavage of a ribozyme derived from Neurospora VS RNA. Biochemistry 32: 2795-2799. Biochemistry
Saville, B.J. and Collins,
R.A. (1991). RNA-mediated ligation of self-cleavage products of a Neurospora
mitochondrial plasmid transcript. Proc.
Nat Acad. Sci. 88: 8826-8830. PubMed
Saville, B.J. and Collins,
R.A. (1990). A site-specific
self-cleavage reaction performed by a novel RNA in Neurospora
mitochondria. Cell 61: 685-696. ScienceDirect