Derivation of the three-dimensional architecture of bacterial ribonuclease P RNAs from comparative sequence analysis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 773-793

  Massire, Christian ^a   Jaeger, Luc ^a   Westhof, Eric ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Ribonuclease P RNA; Ribozyme; RNA folding; RNA modelling; RNA RNA interactions

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032546728     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1797     Document Type: Article

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