The structure of an RNA dodecamer shows how tandem U-U base pairs increase the range of stable RNA structures and the diversity of recognition sites

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 917-930

  Lietzke, Susan E ^a   Barnes, Cindy L ^a   Berglund, J Andrew ^a   Kundrot, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

difference distance matrix; RNA structure; solvent accessible surface; U U base pair; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030586821     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00099-8     Document Type: Article

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