RNA folding: Beyond Watson-Crick pairs

Structure

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages R55-R65

  Westhof, Eric ^a   Fritsch, Valérie ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

BASE PAIRING; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 0034653488     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00112-X     Document Type: Review

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