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. 2004 May;10(5):863–879. doi: 10.1261/rna.5234204

TABLE 2.

Kinetic parameters for ribozyme cleavage of oligonucleotide substrates under different salt conditionsa

10 mM MgCl2 2 mM MgCl2−150 mM NaCl
R•S kcleavage min−1 KMS μM kcleavage/KMS μM−1 min−1 kcleavage min−1 KMS μM kcleavage/KMS μM−1 min−1 koffSb min−1
R2•S23 1 ± 0.2 1.2 ± 0.3 0.9 ± 0.2 0.11 ± 0.01 11 ± 5.0 0.011 ± 0.004 >1
R2A14G•S23U−55C G 0.63 ± 0.07 0.9 ± 0.1 0.73 ± 0.02 0.18 ± 0.01 15 ± 2.0 0.012 ± 0.002 >2
R2A14G•S23U−55C G 0.51 ± 0.05 0.9 ± 0.2 0.47 ± 0.03 0.19 ± 0.03 8.2 ± 0.7 0.022 ± 0.005 >2
R2•S24 0.78 ± 0.04 0.4 ± 0.1 1.6 ± 0.2 0.31 ± 0.01 0.83 ± 0.02 0.38 ± 0.03 0.5 ± 0.2
R2A14G•S24U−55C G 0.79 ± 0.02 0.68 ± 0.06 1.2 ± 0.15 0.24 ± 0.02 0.63 ± 0.1 0.40 ± 0.06
R2A14G•S24U−55C G 0.5 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.2 0.8 ± 0.3 0.25 ± 0.02 0.77 ± 0.02 0.39 ± 0.02 0.11 ± 0.05
R2•S26 0.76 ± 0.06 0.53 ± 0.07 1.5 ± 0.3 0.26 ± 0.02 0.43 ± 0.02 0.6 ± 0.2 <0.1
R2A14G•S26U−55C G 0.68 ± 0.07 0.61 ± 0.09 1.1 ± 0.06 0.26 ± 0.01 0.49 ± 0.06 0.5 ± 0.1 <0.1
R2A14G•S26U−55C G 0.47 ± 0.05 0.70 ± 0.03 0.8 ± 0.4 0.25 ± 0.02 0.53 ± 0.22 0.6 ± 0.3
R2•S28 0.76 ± 0.01 0.6 ± 0.1 1.5 ± 0.3 0.27 ± 0.02 0.33 ± 0.03 0.8 ± 0.1

aMean and range of values obtained from two experiments.

bMeasured using pulse chase experiments as described previously (Hegg and Fedor 1995).