A membrane transporter for tryptophan composed of RNA

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1541-1549

  Janas, Teresa ^a   Janas, Tadeusz ^a   Yarus, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Carrier; Nucleic acid; Phospholipids; Ribocyte; Selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APTAMER; CARRIER PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 4644256425     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7112704     Document Type: Article

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