The solution structure of an essential stem-loop of human telomerase RNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2614-2621

  Leeper, Thomas ^b   Leulliot, Nicolas ^a,c   Varani, Gabriele ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUANINE; PHOSPHATE; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA CAPPING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; TELOMERE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

HUMANS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0038381556     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg351     Document Type: Article

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