The ends of a large RNA molecule are necessarily close

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 292-299

  Yoffe, Aron M ^a   Prinsen, Peter ^b   Gelbart, William M ^a   Ben Shaul, Avinoam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TAXON; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EID: 78651284122     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq642     Document Type: Article

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