Secrets of RNA folding revealed

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1129-1132

  Price, Stephen ^a   Nagai, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0030587904     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00120-7     Document Type: Article

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