Ribonuclease P RNA: Models of the 15/16 bulge from Escherichia coli and the P15 stem loop of Bacillus subtilis

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 577-585

  Easterwood, Thomas R ^a,b   Harvey, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Southeastern Bible College   (United States)

Author keywords

bulge loop; MC SYM; noncanonical base pairs; RNase P RNA; stem loop; tRNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBONUCLEASE P; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, TRANSFER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030918657     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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