Singly and bifurcated hydrogen-bonded base-pairs in tRNA anticodon hairpins and ribozymes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 467-483

  Auffinger, Pascal ^a   Westhof, Eric ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Anticodon; Hammerhead; Leadzyme; Nucleic acid coformation; tRNA

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033600832     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3080     Document Type: Article

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