Nucleotide analogues to investigate RNA structure and function

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 585-593

  Das, Subha R ^a   Fong, Robert ^a   Piccirilli, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; METALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 27744509072     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.10.009     Document Type: Review

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