Secondary structure model of the RNA recognized by the reverse transcriptase from the R2 retrotransposable element

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Mathews, David H ^a   Banerjee, Aloke R ^a,b   Luan, Dongmei D ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a   Turner, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

methylation; retrotransposon; reverse transcriptase; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RETROELEMENTS; RNA; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031014702     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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