New loop-loop tertiary interactions in self-splicing introns of subgroup IC and ID: A complete 3d model of the Tetrahymena thermophila ribozyme

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 993-1009

  Lehnert, Valérie ^a   Jaeger, Luc ^a   Michel, François ^a   Westhof, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

group I intron; ribozyme; RNA folding; RNA modelling; RNA RNA interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030452773     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(96)90166-0     Document Type: Article

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