Calculating the electrostatic properties of RNA provides new insights into molecular interactions and function

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1055-1061

  Chin, Kevin ^a   Sharp, Kim A ^b   Honig, Barry ^a   Pyle, Anna Marie ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0032707625     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/14940     Document Type: Article

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