A sulfate pocket formed by three GoU pairs in the 0.97 Å resolution X- ray structure of a nonameric RNA

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1384-1395

  Masquida, Benoît ^a   Sauter, Claude ^a   Westhof, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

GoU pair; Sulfate ion; Synchrotron; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SULFATES; WATER;

TRIXIS;

EID: 0032879334     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299991173     Document Type: Article

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