Higher order structural effects stabilizing the reverse watson-crick guanine-cytosine base pair in functional RNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 714-726

  Chawla, Mohit ^a   Abdel Azeim, Safwat ^a   Oliva, Romina ^b   Cavallo, Luigi ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HISTIDINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; QUANTUM THEORY; RIBOSWITCH; RNA; WATER;

EID: 84893276782     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt800     Document Type: Article

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