Promoting RNA helical stacking via A-minor junctions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1066-1080

  Geary, Cody ^a   Chworos, Arkadiusz ^a,b   Jaeger, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A MINOR JUNCTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 78649986714     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq748     Document Type: Article

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