A polyhedron made of tRNAs

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 772-779

  Severcan, Isil ^a,b,c   Geary, Cody ^a   Chworos, Arkadiusz ^a,b,c   Voss, Neil ^d   Jacovetty, Erica ^d   Jaeger, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CENTRE OF MOLECULAR AND MACROMOLECULAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; RIBONUCLEASE T1; TRANSFER RNA; MACROMOLECULE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE T1; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 77956029649     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.733     Document Type: Article

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