Identifying the preferred RNA motifs and chemotypes that interact by probing millions of combinations

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tran, Tuan ^a,b   Disney, Matthew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PHENYL BENZIMIDAZOLE; 2 PHENYL INDOLE; BENZIMIDAZOLE; INDOLE; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIGAND; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA MOTIF; RNA STRUCTURE;

BENZIMIDAZOLES; INDOLES; NITROBENZOATES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 84869401695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2119     Document Type: Article

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