Macromolecular mimicry of nucleic acid and protein

IUBMB Life

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-18

  Pedersen, Gitte Nautrup ^a   Nyborg, Jens ^a   Clark, Brian F C ^a  

^a Dept of Biostructural Chemistry   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; DNA repair; Gene regulation; Macromolecular mimicry; Protein translation; TRNA like

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 2; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENOME IMPRINTING; MACROMOLECULE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0342977388     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/152165499307369     Document Type: Review

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