A fast selenium derivatization strategy for crystallization and phasing of RNA structures

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 707-715

  Olieric, Vincent ^a,e   Rieder, Ulrike ^b,e   Lang, Kathrin ^b   Serganov, Alexander ^c   Schulze Briese, Clemens ^a   Micura, Ronald ^b   Dumas, Philippe ^d   Ennifar, Eric ^d  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

RNA structure; Selenium; Structure determination; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HIV-1; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SELENIUM; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 62549095901     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1499309     Document Type: Article

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