Recognition of nucleic acid bases and base-pairs by hydrogen bonding to amino acid side-chains

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 781-796

  Cheng, Alan C ^a,b,c   Chen, William W ^a   Fuhrmann, Cynthia N ^a   Frankel, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA protein interactions; Non Watson Crick base pairs; RNA structure; RNA protein interactions

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING;

EID: 0037418657     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00091-3     Document Type: Article

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