3D maps of RNA interhelical junctions

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1536-1545

  Bailor, Maximillian H ^a   Mustoe, Anthony M ^a   Brooks III, Charles L ^a   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA HELIX; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GAMMA HELIX; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERHELICAL BEND ANGLE; INTERHELICAL EULER ANGLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA INTERHELICAL JUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80053394309     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.385     Document Type: Article

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