Isostericity and tautomerism of base pairs in nucleic acids

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2464-2469

  Westhof, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

anticodon; base modifications; base pair; decoding; fidelity; isostericity; ribosome; tautomerism

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOSTERICITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAUTOMER;

ANTICODON; BASE MODIFICATIONS.; BASE PAIR; DECODING; FIDELITY; ISOSTERICITY; RIBOSOME; TAUTOMERISM;

BASE PAIRING; ISOMERISM; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

EID: 84904246134     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.06.031     Document Type: Review

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