RNA structure and dynamics: A base pairing perspective

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 264-283

  Halder, Sukanya ^a   Bhattacharyya, Dhananjay ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Detection of non canonical base pairs; Non canonical base pair; RNA secondary structure; Structural characterization of non canonical base pairs

Indexed keywords

RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DETECTION OF NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIRS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIRS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DETECTION OF NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIRS; NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIR; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIRS;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 84887524731     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2013.07.003     Document Type: Review

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