Nucleotides that are essential but not conserved; a sufficient L-tryptophan site in RNA

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1915-1924

  Majerfeld, Irene ^a   Chocholousova, Jana ^b   Malaiya, Vikas ^a   Widmann, Jeremy ^a   Mcdonald, Daniel ^a   Reeder, Jens ^a   Iyer, Matthew ^a   Illangasekare, Mali ^a   Yarus, Michael ^a   Knight, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Evolution; SELEX; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; RNA; TRYPTOPHAN; APTAMER;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 77957314671     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2220210     Document Type: Article

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