A posteriori design of crystal contacts to improve the X-ray diffraction properties of a small RNA enzyme

Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 812-825

  MacElrevey, Celeste ^a   Spitale, Robert C ^b   Krucinska, Jolanta ^a   Wedekind, Joseph E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal packing; Four way helical junction; Ribozyme; RNA; Structure based design; Synthetic linker

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; URIDINE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 34250881088     PISSN: 09074449     EISSN: 13990047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1107/S090744490702464X     Document Type: Article

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