Hydration sites of unpaired RNA bases: A statistical analysis of the PDB structures

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kirillova, Svetlana ^a   Carugo, Oliviero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HYDROGEN; RNA; URACIL; WATER;

ARTICLE; DNA HELIX; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RIGIDITY; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; WATER STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE PAIRING; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; WATER;

EID: 80054093226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-11-41     Document Type: Article

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