The scene of a frozen accident

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 485-498

  Ellington, Andrew D ^a   Khrapov, Maksim ^a   Shaw, Chad A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Codon; Genetic code; In vitro selection; SELEX; Translation

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA; STATISTICS; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0034002684     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200000224     Document Type: Review

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