NMR structure of a 4 x 4 nucleotide RNA internal loop from an R2 retrotransposon: Identification of a three purine-purine sheared pair motif and Comparison to MC-SYM predictions

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1664-1677

  Lerman, Yelena V ^a   Kennedy, Scott D ^b   Shankar, Neelaabh ^b   Parisien, Marc ^c   Major, Francois ^c   Turner, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Internal loop; NMR; Retrotransposon; RNA motif; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

PURINE; RNA;

ARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROPOSON; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADENINE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE PAIRING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PURINE NUCLEOTIDES; RETROELEMENTS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84860395322     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2641911     Document Type: Article

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