A naturally occurring, noncanonical GTP aptamer made of simple tandem repeats

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Curtis, Edward A ^a   Liu, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GTP; In vitro selection; Microsatellite; Naturally occurring aptamer; RNA; Tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; APTAMER; CYTIDINE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO SELECTION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ADENOSINE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTIDINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84906329915     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.28798     Document Type: Article

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