A guided tour: Small RNA function in Aarchaea

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 509-519

  Dennis, Patrick P ^a   Omer, Arina ^a   Lowe, Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RIBOSE; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034999985     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02381.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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