Molecular mimicry: Quantitative methods to study structural similarity between protein and RNA

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1167-1172

  Liang, Han ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conserved elements; EF G; Ef tu; Protein translation; RRF; tRNA mimicry

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RECYCLING FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RNA;

EID: 23644461620     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7207205     Document Type: Article

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