Molecular dynamics simulations of solvated yeast tRNA(Asp)

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1 I, 1999, Pages 50-64

  Auffinger, Pascal ^a   Louise May, Shirley ^a   Westhof, Eric ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALCULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; RNA STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SOLVATION; YEAST;

EID: 0032907143     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77177-8     Document Type: Article

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