Intramolecular triple helix as a model for regular polyribonucleotide (CAA)n

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-130

  Efimov, Alexander V ^a   Spirin, Alexander S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Base triads; Enhancing leaders for translation initiation; Non canonical base pairing; Omega sequence; Regular poly(CAA)n sequence; Stacking interactions; Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA

Indexed keywords

POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA HELIX; GENETIC MODEL; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIPLE HELIX;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, VIRAL;

TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 69049095883     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.07.133     Document Type: Article

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