Structural insights of non-canonical U•U pair and Hoogsteen interaction probed with Se atom

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 10476-10487

  Sheng, Jia ^a   Gan, Jianhua ^a   Soares, Alexei S ^b   Salon, Jozef ^a   Huang, Zhen ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORAMIDOUS ACID; SELENIUM; UNTRANSLATED RNA; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HOOGSTEEN PAIR; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; RNA PROBE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SELENIUM; URACIL; URIDINE;

EID: 84890400820     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt799     Document Type: Article

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