Pseudoknot structures with conserved base triples in telomerase RNAs of ciliates

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6150-6160

  Ulyanov, Nikolai B ^a   Shefer, Kinneret ^b   James, Thomas L ^a   Tzfati, Yehuda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CILIATE; COLPIDIUM COLPODA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TELOMERASE; TETRAHYMENINA;

CILIOPHORA; COLPIDIUM COLPODA; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 35548966204     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm660     Document Type: Article

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