Recognition of Watson-Crick base pairs: Constraints and limits due to geometric selection and tautomerism

F1000Prime Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Westhof, Eric ^a   Yusupov, Marat ^a   Yusupova, Gulnara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; TAUTOMER; THERMODYNAMICS; WATSON CRICK BASE PAIR; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899708046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20517599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12703/P6-19     Document Type: Review

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