RNA-protein complexes

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-61

  Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ATTENUATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CISTRON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 0029913438     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80095-9     Document Type: Article

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