TY - GEN AU - Barbas, Ana AU - Matos, Rute G AU - Amblar, Monica AU - López-Viñas, Eduardo AU - Gomez-Puertas, Paulino AU - Arraiano, Cecília Maria PY - 2009 DO - 10.1074/jbc.M109.020693 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/16652 AB - RNase II is the prototype of a ubiquitous family of enzymes that are crucial for RNA metabolism. In Escherichia coli this protein is a single-stranded-specific 3'-exoribonuclease with a modular organization of four functional domains. In eukaryotes,... LA - eng PB - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) KW - Biocatalysis KW - Amino Acid Substitution KW - Amino Acids KW - Conserved Sequence KW - DNA KW - Escherichia coli KW - Exoribonucleases KW - Kinetics KW - Models, Molecular KW - Mutant Proteins KW - Mutation KW - Protein Binding KW - Protein Conformation KW - RNA KW - Substrate Specificity KW - Surface Plasmon Resonance TI - Determination of key residues for catalysis and RNA cleavage specificity: one mutation turns RNase II into a "SUPER-ENZYME" TY - research article ER -