Rna structure

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1977, Pages 138-236

  Kallenbach, Neville R ^a   Berman, Helen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANTICODON; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COLIPHAGE; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT VIRUS; REOVIRUS; REVIEW; X RAY DIFFRACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHEMISTRY; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PLANT VIRUSES; REOVIRIDAE; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, VIRAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0017487792     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500000202     Document Type: Article

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