autocyclization

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ cyclization

Noun

autocyclization (usually uncountable, plural autocyclizations)

1. (biochemistry) The formation of a ring between two fragments of RNA.
   • 2015 July 29, “Chromophore Deprotonation State Alters the Optical Properties of Blue Chromoprotein”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The chromophore responsible for the optical properties in GFP-like proteins is composed of X-Tyr-Gly and is able to form an imidazolinone structure through an autocyclization step, which involves the residues in the vicinity of the chromophore environment such as the highly conserved E215 and R95 in DsRed and the E222 and R96 in avGFP.