Recurrent structural RNA motifs, Isostericity matrices and sequence alignments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2395-2409

  Lescoute, Aurelie ^c   Leontis, Neocles B ^a   Massire, Christian ^b   Westhof, Eric ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ibis Therapeutics   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGNUM; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE PAIRING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 17844366343     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki535     Document Type: Article

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