Recent solution structures of RNA and its complexes with drugs, peptides and proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-323

  Ramos, Andres ^a   Gubser, Charles C ^a   Varani, Gabriele ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DRUG; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0030916603     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80046-2     Document Type: Article

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