G · U base pairing motifs in ribosomal RNA

RNA

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 807-814

  Gautheret, Daniel ^a   Konings, Danielle ^b   Gutell, Robin R ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Base mismatches; Secondary structure; Tertiary structure; Wobble pairs

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GUANINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; URACIL;

EID: 0029382234     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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