Protein-facilitated RNA folding

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 336-342

  Weeks, Kevin M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030916948     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80048-6     Document Type: Article

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