Experimental and theoretical studies of the effects of deoxyribose substitutions on the stability of the UUCG tetraloop

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 297, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 251-265

  Williams, D Jeremy ^a   Hall, Kathleen B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy perturbation; Ribose substitutions; RNA

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBOSE; HYDROXYL GROUP; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLVATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034677665     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3547     Document Type: Article

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