The RNA backbone plays a crucial role in mediating the intrinsic stability of the GpU dinucleotide platform and the GpUpA/GpA miniduplex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4868-4876

  Lu, Xiang Jun ^a   Olson, Wilma K ^b,c   Bussemaker, Harmen J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE; RNA 23S; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; HYDROGEN BOND; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; OCEANOBACILLUS IHEYENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA STABILITY;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RNA; RNA STABILITY; URACIL NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 77955814226     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq155     Document Type: Article

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