Isosteric and nonisosteric base pairs in RNA motifs: Molecular dynamics and bioinformatics study of the sarcin-ricin internal loop

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 14302-14319

  Havrila, Marek ^a   Réblová, Kamila ^b   Zirbel, Craig L ^c   Leontis, Neocles B ^c   Šponer, Jiří ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS; BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS; CONTEXT INDEPENDENT; DEGREE OF COMPATIBILITY; EXPLICIT SOLVENTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RNA BUILDING BLOCKS; UNSTABLE STRUCTURES;

BIOINFORMATICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

RNA;

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF;

BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SOLVENTS;

EID: 84888604588     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp408530w     Document Type: Article

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