Crystal structures of an A-form duplex with single-adenosine bulges and a conformational basis for site-specific RNA self-cleavage

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 173-184

  Portmann, Stefan ^a,b   Grimm, Susan ^c   Workman, Christopher ^c   Usman, Nassim ^c   Egli, Martin ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Sirna Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Base triples; Bending; Major and minor groove widths; Transesterification; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0030090986     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(96)90260-4     Document Type: Article

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