RNA folding: beyond Watson-Crick pairs.
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Several crystal structures of RNA fragments, alone or in complex with a specific protein, have been recently solved. In addition, the structures of an artificial ribozyme, the leadzyme, and the cleavage product of a human pathogen ribozyme, have extended the structural diversity of ribozyme architectures. The attained set of folding rules and motifs expand the repertoire seen previously in tRNA structures.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Structure
دوره 8 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000