RNA folds: Insights from recent crystal structures

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 28, Issue , 1999, Pages 57-73

  Ferré D'Amaré, Adrian R ^a   Doudna, Jennifer A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cation binding site; Coaxial stack; Helix packing; Strand crossover; Tertiary interaction

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; INTRON; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA;

DELTA VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0032985822     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.28.1.57     Document Type: Article

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