Structural compensation in an archaeal selenocysteine transfer RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 365-371

  Ioudovitch, Anatoli ^a   Steinberg, Sergey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Molecular modeling; RNA conformation; Selenocysteine; tRNA; tRNA structure

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; SELENOCYSTEINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE;

METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII;

EID: 0033538422     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2901     Document Type: Article

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