Building a stable RNA U-turn with a protonated cytidine

RNA

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1163-1172

  Gottstein schmidtke, Sina R ^a   Duchardt Ferner, Elke ^a   Groher, Florian ^b   Weigand, Julia E ^b   Gottstein, Daniel ^a   Suess, Beatrix ^b   Wöhnert, Jens ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrogen bond; NMR; Protonated cytidine; RNA structure; U turn

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE; NEOMYCIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; RNA; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTANT; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; U TURN;

HYDROGEN BOND; NMR; PROTONATED CYTIDINE; RNA STRUCTURE; U-TURN;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTIDINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHOSPHATES; RIBOSWITCH; RNA; URIDINE;

EID: 84904470808     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.043083.113     Document Type: Article

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