A network of heterogeneous hydrogen bonds in GNRA tetraloops

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 968-980

  Jucker, Fiona M ^a,b   Heus, Hans A ^a,c   Yip, Ping F ^a,d   Moors, Ellen H M ^a,e   Pardi, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GILEAD SCIENCES   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d ACCELRYS INC   (United States)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrogen bonds; NMR; RNA motifs; Structure; Tetraloops

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030596092     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0690     Document Type: Article

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