On the importance of cotranscriptional RNA structure formation

RNA

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1461-1473

  Lai, Daniel ^a   Proctor, Jeff R ^a   Meyer, Irmtraud M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cotranscriptional RNA folding; RNA secondary structure prediction; RNA structure formation in vivo

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

COTRANSCRIPTIONAL RNA FOLDING; RNA SECONDARY-STRUCTURE PREDICTION; RNA STRUCTURE FORMATION IN VIVO;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; RNA FOLDING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84886034438     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.037390.112     Document Type: Review

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