The separation between the 5'-3' ends in long RNA molecules is short and nearly constant

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 13963-13968

  Leija Martínez, Nehemías ^a   Casas Flores, Sergio ^b   Cadena Nava, Rubén D ^c   Roca, Joan A ^d   Mendez Cabañas, José A ^a   Gomez, Eduardo ^a   Ruiz Garcia, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' END; 5' END; ARTICLE; BROME MOSAIC VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPEA CHLOROTIC MOTTLE VIRUS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION;

FUNGI;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84927586953     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1249     Document Type: Article

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