The lonepair triloop: A new motif in RNA structure

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-83

  Lee, Jung C ^a   Cannone, Jamie J ^a   Gutell, Robin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Base pair exchanges; Coaxial stacking; Comparative sequence analysis; Lonepair conformations; Lonepair triloops

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; LONEPAIR TRILOOP; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0037258776     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01106-3     Document Type: Article

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