The 9/4 secondary structure of eukaryotic selenocysteine tRNA: More pieces of evidence

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1029-1033

  Hubert, Nadia ^a   Sturchler, Christine ^a,b   Westhof, Eric ^a   Carbon, Philippe ^a   Krol, Alain ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Selenocysteine tRNA; Structure probing; tRNA evolution; tRNA structure

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETTER; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; METHANOCOCCUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031667182     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980888     Document Type: Letter

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