Molecular dynamics simulations suggest that RNA three-way junctions can act as flexible RNA structural elements in the ribosome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6247-6264

  Beššeová, Ivana ^a,b   Réblová, Kamila ^a   Leontis, Neocles B ^c   Šponer, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

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

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA 5S; TRANSFER RNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; PHOSPHATE; RNA 23S;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; HYDROLYSIS; LARGE RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATES; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S;

EID: 78049420557     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq414     Document Type: Article

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