Structural rules and conformational compensations in the tRNA L-form

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-282

  Steinberg, Sergey ^a   Leclerc, Fabrice ^a   Cedergren, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Computer modeling; Mitochondrial tRNA; RNA conformation; tRNA structure

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER MODEL; CYTOSOL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031581851     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0803     Document Type: Article

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