Adaptive recognition in RNA complexes with peptides and protein modules

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-87

  Patel, Dinshaw J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIOPHAGE; BETA CHAIN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032864043     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80010-4     Document Type: Article

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