Solution structure of a substrate for the Archaeal pre-tRNA splicing endonucleases: The bulge-helix-bulge motif

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 883-894

  Diener, John L ^a   Moore, Peter B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; ARCHAEAL RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, ARCHAEAL;

EID: 0032062099     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80087-8     Document Type: Article

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