Solution structure of the donor site of a trans-splicing RNA

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 725-733

  Greenbaum, Nancy L ^a   Radhakrishnan, Ishwar ^a,c   Patel, Dinshaw J ^a,b   Hirsh, David ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR; RNA; Splicing; Stem loop; Structure

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030585428     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00078-0     Document Type: Article

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