RNA tectonics: Towards RNA design

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Westhof, Eric ^a   Masquida, Benoît ^a   Jaeger, Luc ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG DESIGN; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG DESIGN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0002664413     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00037-5     Document Type: Article

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