Glycosidic bond conformation preference plays a pivotal role in catalysis of RNA pseudouridylation: a combined simulation and structural study.
Zhou, J., Lv, C., Liang, B., Chen, M., Yang, W., Li, H.(2010) J Mol Biol 401: 690-695
- PubMed: 20615421 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.06.061
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3LWO, 3LWP - PubMed Abstract: 
The most abundant chemical modification on RNA is isomerization of uridine (or pseudouridylation) catalyzed by pseudouridine synthases. The catalytic mechanism of this essential process remains largely speculative, partly due to lack of knowledge of the pre-reactive state that is important to the identification of reactive chemical moieties ...