Structure of the U6 RNA intramolecular stem-loop harboring an Sp-phosphorothioate modification

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 533-542

  Reiter, Nicholas J ^a   Nikstad, Laura J ^a   Allmann, Anne M ^a   Johnson, Randal J ^a   Butcher, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal ion; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR); Phosphorothioate; Residual dipolar coupling (RDC); U6 snRNA

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIASTEREOISOMER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES; THERMODYNAMICS; THIONUCLEOTIDES;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037407032     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2199103     Document Type: Article

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