Fitting peptides into the RNA world

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 332-340

  Frankel, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PEPTIDE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1;

EID: 0034034727     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00092-0     Document Type: Review

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