Structure of transfer RNAs: Similarity and variability

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-61

  Giegé, Richard ^a   Jühling, Frank ^a,b   Pütz, Joern ^a   Stadler, Peter ^b   Sauter, Claude ^a   Florentz, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84859420147     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.103     Document Type: Review

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